{"id":685851,"date":"2026-04-29T13:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/685851\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:03:13","slug":"don-mattingly-thought-he-was-done-with-baseball-the-phillies-instead-pinned-playoff-hopes-on-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/685851\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Mattingly thought he was done with baseball. The Phillies instead pinned playoff hopes on him."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SBG2VUBYJ5H5TF7BI62LGVX6JU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Don Mattingly thew in the towel on his managerial career and had <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/phillies-philadelphia-mattingly-e39c61b430fc4282b75930017621da27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all but retired<\/a> from baseball after he left his bench coach job with Toronto following the World Series.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NQNA7FTPMVDMTDAWWKYOIKJC4I\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Prodded by his son, Mattingly decided to give baseball another go, and accepted a job over the winter as Philadelphia\u2019s bench coach, where he would be reunited with his old friend from their New York Yankees days in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/phillies-philadelphia-thomson-fired-fcb4ab6e0999f8d81fd11b092f8235e9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">manager Rob Thomson<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Don Mattingly thew in the towel on his managerial career and had all but retired from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[43179,78468,5,86740,76331,256,39931,76332,76333,6179,8080,78467,78470,3537,185,3889,1039,57205,78469],"class_list":["post-685851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-2026-mlb-schedule","tag-2026-mlb-world-series","tag-baseball","tag-bbo-phillies-mattingly","tag-mlb-2026-news","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-highlights","tag-mlb-latest-news","tag-mlb-schedule-2026","tag-mlb-scores","tag-mlb-world-series","tag-mlb-world-series-2026","tag-mlb-world-series-news","tag-mlb-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-transactions","tag-world-series","tag-world-series-highlights","tag-world-series-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116488136502137530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}