Nick Castellanos continues on meme with yet another absurdly-timed home run

Nick Castellanos delivered on the absolute lock of the century this week.

The Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Castellanos managed to homer in his very first at-bat against the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday. Castellanos took Tampa Bay’s Shane Baz deep to left for a two-run shot in the first inning to open up the game’s scoring.

Fans went absolutely nuts over the home run, and with good reason. After all, Castellanos has a downright eerie tendency to hit a home run during days of historical or social significance (particularly significance for a negative reason). That continued on Wednesday, which was the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Here were some of the social media reactions to Castellano’s latest absurdly-timed dinger.

The Castellanos meme started in 2020 when the outfielder, then a member of the Cincinnati Reds, hit an extremely poorly-timed home run right in the middle of an on-air apology by then-Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman ( video here ). Since then, Castellanos has furthered his unbelievable track record of homering or otherwise getting big hits at inopportune times (usually on days that national or global tragedies occur).

Among Castellanos’ “greatest” hits have been homering soon after Vin Scully died, homering on the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, and even homering two separate times on each of the respective anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Even just this season alone, Castellanos homered on the day that Donald Trump got shot and then homered again on the day that Joe Biden dropped his bid for re-election .

Now with another homer on September 11 under his belt ( which Castellanos also unbelievably did on September 11, 2021 ), the meme truly appears to have no end in sight.

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