The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the New York Mets in dramatic fashion on Sunday, scoring a walk-off victory to even their best-of-five National League Divisional Series at 1-1. The two teams will have Monday off as the setting shifts to New York for Tuesday's Game 3. One of the key actors in Sunday's victory was outfielder Nick Castellanos .
He went 3 for 5 on the afternoon, homering and driving in the winning run in the ninth with a two-out single. You would never know, based on both that statline and the preceding sentence, that Castellanos was at one point during the game on the receiving end of some jeers from the crowd. Take a look and a listen at part of his fourth inning at-bat against Luis Severino : Phillies fans appear to be getting impatient with Nick Castellanos 😳👀 pic.
twitter.com/wR94wlsiTn He was 1 for 4 with two strikeouts in a Game 1 loss and afterward mentioned how afternoon shadows made it more difficult for both teams to see the baseball . Castellanos' ground out in the at-bat above made him 0 for 2 on the day.
He would hit a game-tying home run in his next trip to the plate. He would then single in the eighth to sustain a rally. His final at-bat, during the ninth, would entail that aforementioned walk-off hit.
NICK CASTELLANOS WINS IT FOR THE @PHILLIES !!! #NLDS pic.twitter.com/vM14etkamy After the game, Castellanos was asked what adjustments he made after hearing it from the crowd that enabled him to produce better "I was just kind of frustrated .