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SPORTS A17
Saturday 8 April 2017

Phil Regan, 80, an assistant POWER
minor league pitching coordi- SERGIO
nator, throws batting practice
with the New York Mets play- Garcia wobbles, but finishes in a four-way tie
ers before a baseball game
against the Miami Marlins, Sergio Garcia, of Spain, tips his
Friday, April 7, 2017, in New hat on the 18th green during
York. the second round of the Mas-
ters golf tournament Friday,
Associated Press April 7, 2017, in Augusta, Ga.
Associated Press
Regan fulfills Page 18
goal to pitch
batting practice

at age 80

RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — On the
second day of his life as an
octogenarian, former big
league pitcher Phil Regan
walked out to the infield
and threw batting prac-
tice for the New York Mets.
On a brisk afternoon be-
fore Friday night’s game
against the Miami Marlins,
Regan took his tosses from
about 30 feet, just like the
other BP pitchers.
Regan had been talking
about his goal for a year at
the team’s spring training
complex in Port St. Lucie,
Florida.
“I said I hope that when I’m
80, that I can throw batting
practice — that’s going to
be my goal, to throw when
I’m 80,” he said
Regan, 96-81 during 13 big
league seasons, is in his
ninth season with the Mets
and is their assistant minor
league pitching coordina-
tor. He turned 80 on Thurs-
day and had planned to
throw BP to minor leaguers
at Port St. Lucie.

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