Blue Jays and Phillies ace, Halladay dies in plane crash

Today is a sad sad day in the baseball world. Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies star ace Roy Halladay was tragically killed in a plane crash out in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this afternoon. Halladay played 15 seasons in the MLB, 11 for the Blue Jays and 4 for the Phillies, finishing his career in 2013 due to injuries. He is a one of the few pitchers to ever win 200 games. In 2010 he threw his first career perfect game and the second post-season no-hitter in MLB history playing for the Phillies and making an improbable playoff run. The “Doc” which is what people called him, won his only Cy Young award that year and punched his name into the history books. Halladay is a future first ballot Hall of famer and is one of the most respected pitchers of his generation. All of us at Open Period Sports are devastated and heartbroken by the news that was broken today. Halladay was a husband, father, coach, mentor, and even could’ve been a coach in the MLB at one point. Halladay will be greatly missed, he was 40 years old.

-AJ DelleMonache

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