'Did he flip us off?' Phillies Nick Castellanos reveals which finger he gave his teammates

PHILADELPHIA − Nick Castellanos hit a double down the left field line in the fourth inning, and he was so excited that he looked back to his Phillies teammates on the dugout railing cheering him on ... and gave them the finger?

Well, he gave them a finger. But it wasn't the middle one.

How did the Phillies know this? Simple, they took out the iPad in the dugout, and checked the video.

"Someone was like, ‘Did he flip us off?’" Kyle Schwarber said. "It was like, ‘What?’ I went back and watched the video and counted the fingers. It was like, ‘OK, it was the ring finger.’"

Castellanos said there was no way he would flip off his teammates with his middle finger.

“Of course, it was my ring finger, man,” Castellanos told NBC Sports Philadelphia in a postgame interview on the field. “Why would I give the middle finger to my teammates? I love them. And then after the fact I was like, ‘Did I really just do that?'"

Then he added: "That's just something that came out. Honestly, I didn't think about it. That's why we're here. That's what this game is about, right? This journey is to get that ring."

The Phillies took the first step Tuesday night, beating the Miami Marlins 4-1. Castellanos' double, his first of two hits on the night, sent J.T. Realmuto to third base with no outs. Bryson Stott followed with a single to center that scored Realmuto. But Castellanos was thrown out at the plate.

Castellanos' second hit was a double in the eighth inning that scored Bryce Harper. Castellanos went to third on the throw home, but was stranded there.

Still, Castellanos was caught up in the emotion of the night from the loud and boisterous sold-out crowd of 45,662.

"No matter how talented you are, you can’t replicate a moment like the postseason, playing here in this stadium and feeling the electricity of this crowd," Castellanos said. "So the fact that we’ve all been down this road before, and we start this journey again, we’re very present and very focused on what we need to do."

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