NEW YORK — When Nick Williams was given the biggest news of his baseball career, he thought it was a joke.
But Lehigh Valley manager Dusty Wathan was dead serious when he told the outfielder Thursday evening that he was being called up by the Phillies and to head to New York.
“It was mind blowing,” Williams said before making his debut in Friday’s game against the New York Mets at Citi Field. “I wanted to say my instant reaction was that I was the happiest person in the world. I thought he was joking.”
This was no joke.