There are rare occasions when reality tops anything imagined fiction can conjure up.
Veteran catcher Chooch Ruiz, a long-time Phillies favorite, delivered a three-run double Wednesday in a five-run seventh inning that carried the Mariners an 11-6 victory at Citizens Bank Park.
It’s uncertain, of course, but Ruiz is 38, and it’s possible this was his final game in a city where he was a key member of clubs that reached postseason in five straight years from 2007-11 and won the 2008 World Series.
If so, he went out in style.
The victory enabled the Mariners to sweep the two-game series and, for the first time since the season started, pull their record back to .