Milwaukee Brewers slugger Rhys Hoskins made his much-anticipated return to Philadelphia’s Residents Financial institution Park on Monday evening.
The 31-year-old Hoskins spent the whole lot of his skilled profession with the Phillies till he signed a free-agent pact with the Brewers in late January (one-year, $16 million with participant choices for 2025 and 2026). Hoskins was initially drafted by the Phillies with a fifth-round choose in 2012 out of Sacramento State. He made his big-league debut in 2017, and over the subsequent seven seasons he tallied 148 house runs, 149 doubles, and a 125 OPS+ as a core member of the Phillies. Thirty of these house runs got here with the 2022 Phillies staff that superior to the World Sequence.
To say the least, Hoskins stays a beloved determine in Philly:
And he was little question anticipated an emotional first journey to the plate on Monday evening:
As for that first plate look again at CPB, this is the reception:
It is no shock that it was an exceptionally heat reception, and that it meant an ideal deal to Hoskins. Within the seventh inning, Hoskins made his return much more memorable when he cracked a house run off Zack Wheeler, his tenth house run of the season:
Not secondary to all of that is that Monday’s sequence opener (MIL-PHI GameTracker) marked the primary 2024 assembly between two groups who’ve been the Nationwide League’s greatest up to now. The Brewers got here into this one with a document of 36-23 and the biggest division lead in baseball (seven video games over the second-place Cardinals). The Phillies, in the meantime, had an NL-best document of 41-19 and a hefty 6 ½-game lead over the Braves.
As for Hoskins, he is coming off a torn left ACL that price him all the 2023 season and has been a frontline producer for the Brewers. In 40 video games this season coming into Monday evening, Hoskins slashed .239/.339/.465 (128 OPS+) in 40 video games – classic Hoskins.
