Acquired by the Philadelphia Phillies in a trade ahead of the MLB Trade Deadline, it did not take long for Jhoan Duran to electrify the crowd at Citizens Bank Park.
Both with his entrance and with a four-pitch save in his Phillies debut.
Nicknamed the “Durantula” for his love of spiders — “[e]verywhere,” said the closer when asked where he has spiders beyond his spikes and his tattoo — Duran’s entrance is the stuff of legend. It starts with a WWE-style entrance featuring music right from The Undertaker, transitions to the lights going out for a moment as fans bring out their phones, and concludes with Duran taking to
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