PHILADELPHIA -- Pamella Hall has worked on the land around Citizens Bank Park from before the ballpark's superstructure existed. She was the foreperson on the construction crew that built the ballpark in 2002 and '03 in the parking lot next to Veterans Stadium, and she has seen just about everything that has happened at the ballpark since.
But Sunday was different. There was nothing that could prepare the Phillies' director of landscaping and site work operations for what the day would be like, with her entire staff on the warning track before she threw out the first pitch to the Phillie Phanatic while Phils manager Gabe Kapler walked out to greet her.