PHILADELPHIA — All around you was a scene so familiar that it somehow felt new. The names on the jerseys, the uniform numbers, the family members who squirmed in their arms and clutched at their knees — all of it looked different than the last time around. All of it except for their faces, each of them coated in that stupefied glaze.
As dusk spread across Citizens Bank Park, the infield grass pulsed with an energy a decade-plus in the making, Rhys Hoskins looked out across the swarm of well-wishers around him and up toward a sellout crowd that was not about to leave.
“I want more,” the Phillies first baseman said. “I want more of it.”
