PHILADELPHIA -- A deep crack snarls up the length of Dominic Smith's cell phone, several others spider-webbing from it. Initially when Smith dropped the phone on the floor of Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport late Thursday, life still flickered in the screen. By the time Smith arrived at Citizens Bank Park on Friday for his big league debut, it had gone dark for good.
"I can just imagine all the people texting," Smith said, laughing. "I can hear my phone vibrating but I can't see it."
Smith's mother and brother, who traveled across the country to watch him debut in Philadelphia, will surely understand.