Over the past few days, it seems as though the sport is being turned around on its head. The universal DH is at least temporarily arriving in the National League in 2020 and extra innings will begin with a runner on second base. It reminds us of a time in recent Phillies history when almost every variable we believed to be constant in baseball wasn’t.
In May of 2010, Commissioner Bud Selig announced that the Blue Jays-Phillies series set for June 25-27 had been moved to Philadelphia due to security concerns surrounding the G20 Summit.