{"id":702,"date":"2026-06-09T05:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:12:33","slug":"back-in-toronto-as-phillies-interim-manager-don-mattingly-reflects-on-blue-jays-run-to-the-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Back in Toronto as Phillies interim manager, Don Mattingly reflects on Blue Jays\u2019 run to the World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Moments after the Blue Jays\u2019 World Series hopes dwindled away in Game 7 against the Dodgers last November, Don Mattingly sat in Toronto\u2019s dugout and looked out at the field at Rogers Centre. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=700\">Somali referee won\u2019t officiate in World Cup after being denied entry into the United States<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Bo Bichette, who departed the Jays for the Mets in free agency a few months later, shared a hug with his bench coach before they disappeared into the clubhouse. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI was just kind of watching the end of it, and taking it in,\u201d Mattingly said. \u201cI usually get out of the dugout after a game, but that one I just kind of watched, took it in, and then Bo came over.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bo Bichette hugs Don Mattingly after World Series loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u2764\ufe0f\u26be\ufe0fpic.twitter.com\/9w3bdnfxuL<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blue Jays Dad (@BlueJaysDad) November 2, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, Mattingly was sitting at that ballpark but in the opposite dugout, now as the Phillies\u2019 interim manager. It marked his first visit to the Rogers Centre since the 11-inning, 5-4 loss that cemented the Dodgers as back-to-back champions. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Over his more than four decades in baseball as a player, manager, and coach, 2025 was Mattingly\u2019s first time being involved in a World Series. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat I learned: It\u2019s hard to get there; it\u2019s hard to move through each round,\u201d he said. \u201cJust emotional, right? If you\u2019re the team that doesn\u2019t get the last out, it\u2019s a crash. No matter if it\u2019s at that level or it\u2019s the first round. That feeling is the same. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cBut once you get away from that, from last year\u2019s standpoint, you really are proud of the team, right? What they were able to accomplish, the guys that are in there, and you feel for those guys, and they kind of laid their hearts out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=698\">Cristopher S\u00e1nchez strikes out 10 as the Phillies top the Blue Jays<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Mattingly spent three years as bench coach for Blue Jays manager John Schneider. He stepped down after the World Series, as he felt like he had accomplished his goal of helping Schneider, a younger manager, establish himself. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He couldn\u2019t have predicted that five months later, he would be managing again. Mattingly initially planned to retire but changed his mind after he was approached by the Phillies in the offseason for their open bench coach job. And after Rob Thomson was fired following the Phillies\u2019 slow start, Mattingly was back at the helm. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He said he\u2019s taken many lessons from his previous stops into his position. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot, the way Schneids does things, and the way Toronto actually does things,\u201d Mattingly said. \u201cBut I can say the same from everywhere. From Miami, I can say the same from LA, I could say the same from being around Joe Torre with his staff. So you\u2019re always taking. I always try to take from everyone, good or bad. Take the bad, and know that that\u2019s not what you want to do, right? So I\u2019m taking all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>With this series against Toronto, Mattingly\u2019s familiarity also gives him a leg up with game-planning. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a little less having to totally go through a club you don\u2019t know anything about,\u201d he said. \u201cLike a lot of the White Sox guys we just got done playing, there was a lot of new faces that I hadn\u2019t seen play before. It makes me more comfortable. I don\u2019t know if it makes it easier, but I definitely kind of know who these guys are, in a sense, and how they use them. But you still got to get outs, and make plays, and all that kind of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Extra bases<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Justin Crawford sat against Blue Jays left-hander Patrick Corbin on Monday, with Edmundo Sosa drawing into the lineup at left field and Brandon Marsh sliding to center. \u2026 Zack Wheeler (5-1, 2.31 ERA) is scheduled to start against Blue Jays righty Dylan Cease (3-3, 3.05) on Tuesday. Cease will be making his first start since he was placed on the injured list on May 25 with a left hamstring strain. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=696\">Folarin Balogun has delivered on his promise with the USMNT, and now a long-awaited World Cup is here<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattingly was the Blue Jays&#8217; bench coach for three years and took the same role with the Phillies this offseason. 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