Hernandez was on second base, and he said something to Utley, something he says “I don’t really remember. Now here he was in Philadelphia, playing a team that had won a World Series and finished in first place five straight years and still had recognizable stars, especially Chase Utley, arguably the most respected and popular Phillie of this century. Kiké Hernandez was 23, had already been traded from Houston to the Marlins six weeks earlier, and as the son of a baseball scout in Puerto Rico, was a wide-eyed rookie who’d dreamed of playing in the majors from the time he and his youth teammate Christian Vazquez were playing together in San Juan.
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