After years of being on the road of pro baseball, I knew that a late night call from my mom was not going to bring good news.
In the offseason after my first full season with the Phillies, this phone call was the entry point of what would become a spiral of bad news about the health of my father. A major stroke had sent him into a tailspin.
This would frame my career in the heart of my first and only multi-year contract with the Phillies, but also offered a window inside a game that had been simple.