Posing with NLCS trophy, fans relive Phils’ magical run
CLEARWATER, Fla. — For a second straight day, followers lined up alongside the right-field concourse at BayCare Ballpark to take a look at the Phillies’ 2022 National League Championship Series trophy.
Most followers have been seeing the trophy in-person for the primary time, however others — like Don Weston from Reading, Pa. — merely needed a more in-depth look. After all, Weston was one of many 45,485 followers readily available for Philadelphia’s NLCS-clinching victory in Game 5 at Citizens Bank Park in October.
“It’s pretty cool seeing it up close after watching them celebrate with it on the field last year,” stated Weston, who travels all the way down to Clearwater for every week each spring. “I’ve actually got a picture — it’s not the best quality, obviously — of Rhys [Hoskins] holding up the trophy, and now I’ll have one of me with it, too. So that’s pretty neat.”
Weston was one in every of many followers who hopped in line for an opportunity to have their image taken with the NLCS trophy, which went on show on the right-field berm beginning on Friday. It will stay there all through the rest of Spring Training.
Unlike Weston, Julie Hill wasn’t on the pennant-clinching contest, however her brother was on the recreation — and he would not let her overlook about it.
“My brother rubs it in all the time that he was there and got to see the celebration and everything,” she stated. “So now I can just be like, ‘Yeah, but do you have a picture with the trophy? Because I do.'”
For some followers, seeing the trophy introduced again recollections of their favourite moments from the postseason run, whether or not it’s Hoskins’ bat spike or Bryce Harper’s go-ahead homer that finally introduced that NLCS trophy to Philadelphia. For others, it was nearly sharing a particular second between a father and son or a father and daughter — or within the case of the Thompson household from Cherry Hill, N.J., three generations of Phillies followers: a grandfather, a father and a son.
But for some, seeing the trophy was merely an indication of larger issues to come back.
“Last year was really cool,” stated 10-year-old Sammy Benson, a West Chester, Pa., resident on trip in Florida along with his household. “But I think they’ll be even better this year. I think, next year, we’ll be taking a picture with the World Series [trophy].”
