Forget the Gatorade bath – Rob Thomson got, and definitely deserved, the champagne bath after the Phillies advanced to the World Series Sunday afternoon.
Almost an hour after the final out was recorded, Thomson, who was named interim skipper when Joe Girardi was dismissed on June 1, gave his team a quick address noting that they had “beaten three really good teams, and there was one to go” – and then got a face full of the bubbly from his squad:
A few players tried for some premature celebration, and Kyle Schwarber looked like he was ready to explode before his bottle of Dom, but they can let it flow now, for there’s four days off before the Fall Classic begins in either Houston or New York on Friday.
A historic run continues for Thomson, who started his coaching career in 1988 and spent the last 15 years alongside Girardi with the Yankees and Phillies, nine as the bench coach, before taking over with the Phillies sitting at 22-29 and in third place in the NL East.
The Phillies went 65-46 under “Topper” and broke an 11-year playoff drought by earning the third Wild Card spot, and they are now 8-2 (including 5-0 at home) in the postseason entering the World Series, their first since 2009.
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