Want a crazy baseball story with a connection to the Philadelphia Phillies? Here’s an interesting one.
Over the weekend, I – excuse the personal life anecdote for a moment – was asked what would happen if a player hit a home run but suffered such a devastating injury that they couldn’t finish running the bases. Ryan Howard on the final play of the 2011 NLDS was the jumping off point for the discussion. Research yielded an example that not only answered the question, but has a connection to the 2019 Phillies.
On Sept. 14, 2005, David Ortiz and the Boston Red Sox defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 at the Rogers Centre, then simply referred to as the Skydome.