Today is the second anniversary of Phillies pitcher Brett Myers' post-wife beating game start. Philadelphia magazine writer Rich Rys examines the impact of that decision and how it's affected his career and what it says about Major League Baseball''s handling of domestic violence cases. He can be reached at rrys@phillymag.com Not long after 1:30pm on Saturday, June 24, Philadelphia Phillies righthander Brett Myers took the mound at Fenway Park. His team was three games below .500 and coming off a 10-2 loss to the Red Sox the night before, but it wasn’t the Phillies record that was weighing so heavily on Myers that steamy summer afternoon. Less than 36 hours before, Myers was arrested by Boston police after a night of boozing ended with what eyewitnesses said was the pitcher dragging his wife, Kim, by her hair and hitting her. To the joy of the 35,564 fans at Fenway and the horror of everyone else—other than the Philadelphia Phillies front office, apparently—Myers didn’t miss his start, and over the course of his five-inning, three-run appearance, the boos cascaded down. Though the charges against him were eventually dropped after Myers and his wife entered counseling, there’s no doubt the jeers were deserved. If only Phillies president Dave Montgomery was forced to stand out on the mound with him and endure the same ridicule for throwing Myers to the wolves that day, a move The Boston Globe called “an embarrassment.” Trotting out ...
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Today is the second anniversary of Phillies pitcher Brett Myers' post-wife beating game start. Philadelphia magazine writer Rich Rys examines the impact of that decision and how it's affected his career and what it says about Major League Baseball''s handling of domestic violence cases. He can be reached at rrys@phillymag.com Not long after 1:30pm on Saturday, June 24, Philadelphia Phillies righthander Brett Myers took the mound at Fenway Park. His team was three games below .500 and coming off a 10-2 loss to the Red Sox the night before, but it wasn’t the Phillies record that was weighing so heavily on Myers that steamy summer afternoon. Less than 36 hours before, Myers was arrested by Boston police after a night of boozing ended with what eyewitnesses said was the pitcher dragging his wife, Kim, by her hair and hitting her. To the joy of the 35,564 fans at Fenway and the horror of everyone else—other than the Philadelphia Phillies front office, apparently—Myers didn’t miss his start, and over the course of his five-inning, three-run appearance, the boos cascaded down. Though the charges against him were eventually dropped after Myers and his wife entered counseling, there’s no doubt the jeers were deserved. If only Phillies president Dave Montgomery was forced to stand out on the mound with him and endure the same ridicule for throwing Myers to the wolves that day, a move The Boston Globe called “an embarrassment.” Trotting out ...