PHILADELPHIA — Phillies shortstop Trea Turner has already received an NL batting title and a World Sequence championship ring in his 11-year MLB profession.
Now he has performed a task in an Emmy Award-winning documentary.
Turner won’t even have the award in hand to maintain for good, however he received to hoist the actual deal forward of Friday’s recreation towards Toronto in a brief celebration for the perfect quick documentary Emmy received by “The Turnaround,” which informed the story of the 2023 standing ovations credited with turning round his season.
“The Turnaround” received a Sports activities Emmy in Could, and sports activities documentary producer Kyle Thrash and Phillies fan Jon McCann — whose private struggles with psychological well being and kinship with Turner had been the guts of the movie — attended the sport to indicate off their new trophy to Turner.
“Trea Turner, we share an Emmy collectively,” McCann mentioned as he shook Turner’s hand on the sector after batting follow.
Turner learn the inscription on the backside of the Emmy and promised the 2 followers he would wave to them in part 301 if he stole a base in Friday’s recreation.
“We get to carry a trophy again to the ballpark tonight and share it with so many individuals that had been concerned within the standing ovation. It is fairly unbelievable,” Thrash mentioned.
Philly sports activities followers, typically billed as among the worst in sports activities, gave a slumping Turner standing ovations in at-bats all through the weekend in an August 2023 sequence to indicate he had their full help.
Turner was within the first season of an 11-year, $300 million cope with the Phillies however was batting simply .238 with 11 residence runs and 39 RBIs. He was even dropped to eighth within the batting order headed into that sequence towards Kansas Metropolis.
In three video games over the weekend towards the Royals, Turner went 4-for-12 with two doubles, a house run and 5 RBIs and he would ultimately assist lead the Phillies to the playoffs.
Turner later helped pay for “Thank You, Philly” digital billboards within the better Philadelphia space.
The documentary was produced by Increased Floor, the media firm based by former President Barack Obama and first girl Michelle Obama
McCann, also called “The Philly Captain,” is a Philadelphia-based YouTuber and was one of many followers — together with a Philly sports activities discuss radio host — credited with rallying the followers to get behind Turner.
“Through the ceremony, one of many award presenters mentioned, ‘Whenever you go up towards the Olympics, you lose.’ So I sort of thought we already misplaced,” McCann mentioned. “We did not. It was an important, nice shock.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.
