PHILADELPHIA — Braden Halladay stood on the field to throw a first pitch at the same ballpark where Roy Halladay threw a playoff no-hitter and wondered how the moment never seemed too big for his father.
Roy Halladay — who starred at Arvada West High School — already had thrown a perfect game for the Phillies in 2010, about as rare a feat a pitcher can accomplish in baseball. Halladay pitched himself into baseball history later that October with a playoff no-hitter, the second ever in baseball and a moment that forever stamped an already great pitcher as a bona fide Hall of Famer.