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| 2022 Choice Lehigh Valley IronPigs #17 |
Game 108 - Sunday Afternoon, August 7th in Philadelphia
Record - 60-48, 3rd Place, 9 1/2 game behind the Mets
One Sentence Summary: The Phillies destroyed the Nationals in this Alumni Weekend finale.
What It Means: The Phillies are hot, having won 11 of their last 13 and now five in a row.
What Happened: The ballpark welcomed back dozens of alumni in a wonderful pregame ceremony, including most of the living members of the 1980 World Championship club, and various Wall of Famers in attendance for the weekend. Mike Schmidt was a notable absence, as he had tested positive for Covid earlier that morning. The Hall of Famer sent a pre-recorded message, celebrating the 1980 team and thanking the fans. Pete Rose made his first appearance at a Phillies event since being banned from baseball, and he quickly reminded everyone why it's probably best he doesn't return again.
What It Means: The Phillies are hot, having won 11 of their last 13 and now five in a row.
What Happened: The ballpark welcomed back dozens of alumni in a wonderful pregame ceremony, including most of the living members of the 1980 World Championship club, and various Wall of Famers in attendance for the weekend. Mike Schmidt was a notable absence, as he had tested positive for Covid earlier that morning. The Hall of Famer sent a pre-recorded message, celebrating the 1980 team and thanking the fans. Pete Rose made his first appearance at a Phillies event since being banned from baseball, and he quickly reminded everyone why it's probably best he doesn't return again.
On the field, the offense continued to mash. Four more home runs were hit in this game, including two from Darick Hall and one each from Nick Maton and Rhys Hoskins, and the team set a new franchise record with 14 home runs in a single regular season series. Bryson Stott was 2 for 5 with three RBIs. Aaron Nola pitched six innings, allowing a run on five hits on the way to his eighth win.
Featured Card: Hall gets the honors again, and the Phillies will need to get creative with their line-up once Bryce Harper returns in September to make sure Hall continues to get at-bats. Hall has four baseball cards available so far in 2022, three Topps Now cards and this card from the IronPigs team set.
Featured Card: Hall gets the honors again, and the Phillies will need to get creative with their line-up once Bryce Harper returns in September to make sure Hall continues to get at-bats. Hall has four baseball cards available so far in 2022, three Topps Now cards and this card from the IronPigs team set.
Field Report: After attending Friday and Saturday night's games, we sat this one out. Friend of the blog Rick reported there were multiple alumni signing stations available briefly before the game throughout the ballpark as follows:
- Bobby Abreu and Juan Samuel in the Hall of Fame Club, at separate tables
- Warren Brusstar and Greg Gross on the main concourse
- Dick Ruthven and Del Unser on the main concourse, and
- Dickie Noles and Kevin Saucier on the main concourse
New Alumni Photo Cards were available for Abreu, Gross, Ruthven and Saucier. I won't update the master list I've compiled here (yet), but I'll at least add a note that these four new cards are now out in the wild.
Oddly enough, the new Abreu card features a different photo from his original card, using a photo taken during the same at-bat. The photo courtesy of Rick below shows the original Abreu card on the left, with the new one on the right.
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