Phillips’ first MLB start on Saturday will mark the latest pinch-me moment for a South Jersey Phillies-loving family that spans four generations.
South Jersey’s Tyler Phillips and his family are living a Phillies dream. And his dad hopes he never wakes up.
Dan’s feet had barely touched the ground, then, when Tyler ran in from the bullpen with the Phillies trailing by five runs last Sunday in Atlanta. Tyler struck out the side in the fifth inning — Matt Olson on a 2-2 curveball, Marcell Ozuna and Travis d’Arnaud on sweepers. In four innings, he piled up seven strikeouts, the most in a major-league debut by a Phillies reliever.“The staff there was so nice. They let me get down behind the plate,” he said.
“It’s just amazing,” Dan said. “Wearing the pinstripes is something special. Getting to see him start, warm up, it’s just going to be amazing to watch.” “Fireworks night,” Dan said, not referring to back-to-back homers from Rico Brogna and Mike Lieberthal in an eight-run first inning. “They had 58,000 people there. That was Tyler’s first game. He was 2.”The Phillipses were there for the last game at the Vet in 2003 and the 2004 opener of the Bank, where they often sat in bleacher seats near the bullpens. And in 2007, when Tyler pushed his grandfather, an ardent fan of Ryan Howard, through the concourse in a wheelchair.
Then there was the time that Dan feared he lost Tyler amid a throng of children who swarmed the Phanatic. “I was like, ‘He’s going to get trampled,’ and he’d come out with a signed ball,” Dan said. “We probably have like 30 balls that are signed by all the Phillies from those teams.”
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