tell Wood<\/a> he would start the game.<\/p>\n\u201cI hope it was a moment that he\u2019ll never forget, other than the next call hopefully to the big leagues soon enough,\u201d Victorino said. \u201cIt\u2019s always an honor to hand the ball to someone obviously that\u2019s a hometown or home-team kid and get that opportunity hopefully someday to pitch for that team.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Phillies drafted Wood in the first round (26th overall) last season and signed him for $3 million. He made eight starts this season for Class-A Clearwater and eight for Double-A Reading. Wood has a 3.44 ERA and 79 strikeouts in 55 innings total this season.<\/p>\n
Wood naturally hoped to get the call one day to help the Phillies in a pennant race at Citizens Bank Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I went up those steps and I got out there on the grass, I looked up and I was like, \u2018Wow, this looks way bigger than from the suite when we were here when we signed last year,\u2019\u201d Wood said. \u201cThat was awesome. The park’s huge. Everybody here was like, man, you’ve got a good home park. I was like, yeah, this place is sick.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NL tied the game at 1-1 in the third on a Jes\u00fas Made RBI groundout against Toronto’s Nolan Perry. Made is a 19-year-old Milwaukee Brewers infielder who is rated MLB.com\u2019s top prospect.<\/p>\n
Wood’s teammate and Reading closer Wen-Hui Pan allowed Flewelling’s two-run shot into the second row of the right-field seats in the sixth. Flewelling was the third Rays player to ever win Futures MVP honors.<\/p>\n
Boston’s Anthony Eyanson earned the win and San Diego’s Kash Mayfield took the loss.<\/p>\n
Victorino was the center fielder on the 2008 World Series champion Phillies and Bowa the starting shortstop on the 1980 World Series winners \u2014 the only two World Series championship teams in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Bowa, a senior adviser to baseball operations for the Phillies, is still a fixture at games and usually can be spotted hitting grounders during infield practice.<\/p>\n
He was a five-time NL All-Star and won a pair of Gold Gloves and later managed the San Diego Padres and was the 2001 NL Manager of the Year with the Phillies.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve been very fortunate, not only with health and the good man upstairs, but the organization\u201d has been great, Bowa said. \u201cWe’ve had three or four managers; they all tell me to come down to spring training. (Owner) John Middleton’s been great. The fact they’re letting me do this, I mean without the help of those guys, I couldn’t suit up the way I’m doing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among past Futures Games players, 86.8% have gone on to play in at least one major league game, while 259 total players (21.3%) have been selected to play in at least one major league All-Star Game.<\/p>\n
Twenty-five of the players that appeared in last season’s game in Atlanta have played in the big leagues this season.<\/p>\n
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