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Goeddel brothers to finally meet when Phillies host the Mets this weekend

NEW YORK - Tyler Goeddel remembers when he realized he could do it, too. He remembers the radar guns and the pro scouts hogging views behind home plate. Sometimes it was hard for parents to get seats. And Tyler remembers who was standing on the mound.

Before his teens, Tyler watched his older brother, Erik, dominate the high school baseball circuit. And he saw the letters that came from "every college in the nation."

"That's what motivated me to know I want to go the same path," Tyler said.

Even with their lives engulfed in baseball, the brothers have never played against each other at any level outside of wiffle-ball games in the backyard of their San Mateo, Calif.