Daily News | Phillies’ Brandon Marsh returns home for the playoffs, just as his late father dreamed
center fielder Brandon Marsh grew up in Buford, Ga., about an hour north of Turner Field. He was raised on Andruw Jones and Chipper Jones and John Smoltz, and come October, he expected to see his team in the playoffs.
This season, Brandon got there. After making his MLB debut in July 2021 with the Los Angeles Angels, he was acquired by the Phillies at the trade deadline, and is now playing meaningful baseball as temperatures start to drop. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Marsh will have the opportunity to play meaningful baseball in October in Atlanta, the place that shaped him, as the Phillies take on the Braves in the NL Division Series.
But he was there, for the last game of spring training. He knew his time was short, so he made the most of it. They talked for hours about baseball and life and who Brandon wanted to be and what he wanted to accomplish. His father told him how he proud he was. And about a month later, in April, he died.
Sometimes, Marsh will be standing in center field, and he’ll see something that reminds him of his father. Often, it’s a butterfly. The day after his father died, Marsh was sitting on the hood of his friend’s car when a butterfly landed next to him. He tried to shoo it away, but it wouldn’t budge.‘We are not losing this game’: How Bryce Harper’s mantra is setting a tone for the Phillies
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