The Phillies’ superstar slugger Bryce Harper just turned into the ultimate wingman for a teen looking to ask a girl out to prom.
Knowing his high school sweetheart to be a massive Phillies fan, Jake Portella reasoned that if he could get Harper to help him deliver the question, she would be certain to say yes.
In a viral video shared by Major League Baseball, Portella and Harper are outside Giullia Leonetti’s front door. When the young woman answers it, Harper asks her if she would like to go to prom with Portella. Hugs, disbelief, but most importantly a ‘yes’ follow.
But how did a teenager at Haddonfield Memorial High School in New Jersey manage to get arguably MLB’s biggest star to help out?
“I’ve been brainstorming ideas for prom for a couple weeks and I knew I wanted to do something Phillies-themed because she loves the Phillies so much,” Portella told MLB.com. “I was talking to one of my friends and I was like, ‘There’s some Phillies players who live in town, it’d be cool if I could get one of them to help me with it.’”
One of those players happened to be Bryce Harper, and Portella, deserving of recognition for some serious courage, came by one day and simply knocked on the slugger’s door to ask if he could “help in any capacity.”
It’s always cool and refreshing when celebrities behave exactly like normal people, and after answering the door, Harper asked for Portella’s contact information so that maybe he could help out. Then he had a change of heart.
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“Then, as I was leaving, he calls me back and he’s like, ‘What if we just did it right now?’” Portella recalled.
Harper claims it was really simple: he was just trying “to help a brother out.”
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As for Leonetti, she was left in tears and total shock that “the chosen one” had arrived at her door. Unfortunately for Portella, she wasn’t referring to him, but she said yes all the same.
Scheduled for June 14th, any further surprise prom appearences of “the chosen one” seem unlikely, as he will be several hundred miles to the south for a 3-game series against the Baltimore Orioles.
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