Phillies Red Sox Fans Home Run Interference

Shoutout to these Phillies and Red Sox fans for handing Boston a go-ahead HR in extras

Drew Smith
July 24, 2025
Phillies
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Last night’s Phillies game had everything.

Just when you thought the Phillies had finally broken the Red Sox, Carlos Narváez, after he basically handed Philly two wins with back-to-back catcher’s interference calls, turned the tables in the worst way possible.

In the 11th inning of a bonkers back-and-forth game, Narváez crushed a 97-mph fastball from Seth Johnson into the first row in left to give Boston a 9-7 lead.

The Phillies clawed one back in the bottom half, but the damage was done and what happened in left field had my blood boiling.

Phillies and Red Sox fans reach over the rail to haul in HR ball

Absolutely not a home run but whatever pic.twitter.com/oEtyQZgb82
— John Foley (@2008Philz) July 24, 2025

Simply cannot happen.

You can’t lean over the railing. It’s just something that can never happen. You have a bunch of Boston scumbags trying to give their baseball team the lead by reeling in that baseball, along with a Phillies fan that was probably too old to be wearing a baseball glove at Citizens Bank Park interfering with the play. Disgraceful.

Phillies fan had their eyes closed. The two Red Sox fans were no where close to making the catch either. All of that and they didn’t even catch the ball. I’ve seen toddlers make better effort. Get it together out there!

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why Major League Baseball doesn’t have a “Fence Cam” that shows you down the rails at ballparks

That would make these types of reviews so much easier. Instead, you’re just given a full-frontal of the play and it always just makes things even harder to figure out. We need an end zone cam like the NFL, obviously.

At the end of the night, it wasn’t the fans fault.

Those fans should be buried under center field post game
— Finkatron 3000 (@FINKADELPHIA) July 24, 2025

I want to bury these fans in left field too, Fink, but at the end of the night, we can’t blame them Jesus Luzardo carried a no-hitter into the fifth before walking four and allowing a grand slam to completely erase what was a Phillies 5-0 lead.

Jesús Luzardo lost his no-hitter in the fifth, and from there, it spiraled. With two outs and a chance to end the inning quietly, JT Realmuto lost a pop-up behind the plate. It dropped untouched. The Red Sox responded by unloading. Romy Gonzalez hit a grand slam. Boston plated six runs after what should’ve been the third out.

The Phillies tied it late on a Realmuto solo shot off Aroldis Chapman, his first homer off a lefty since 2023, and briefly took the lead in extras thanks to RBI singles from Schwarber and Johan Rojas. But Johnson couldn’t hold the line.

4 walks. Grand Slam. https://t.co/cXMMwegQWZ
— Drew Smith (@drewmsmith) July 24, 2025

Jesus Luzardo needs to get to the bullpen in October

I will say, moving Luzardo to the bullpen come playoff time seems like the right move for the Phillies. Honestly, I wish it could happen sooner but the depth in the rotation is basically gone at this point. Aaron Nola is still out of action, Mick Abel is dominating again down in Lehigh Valley, and Andrew Painter isn’t ready yet.

That’s not great. It gets worse when you have Taijuan Walker on the bump to open up a weekend series in the Bronx tomorrow night. We’ll have to tackle the rotation issue later, but right now, we’re somehow stuck in misery.