Rhys Hoskins’ Phillies’ tenure ended without the pomp and circumstance it perhaps deserved when he was prematurely deprived of his swan song by a freak Spring Training injury 15 months ago. Tonight, there was some closure between the man, the franchise that raised him and the fanbase that externalized their pathos onto him during an exile from competitive baseball that spanned over a decade.
Hoskins returned to Citizens Bank Park for the first time since Game 7 of last year’s NLCS, this time sporting road grays, as the Philadelphia Phillies (42-19) defeated the Milwaukee Brewers (36-24) in the opening game of their mid-week series.