Phils' Turner hails Emmy for film on his '23 ovation

PHILADELPHIA -- Phillies shortstop Trea Turner has already won an NL batting rubric and a World Series title ringing successful his 11-year MLB career.

Now helium has played a relation successful an Emmy Award-winning documentary.

Turner mightiness not really person the grant successful manus to support for good, but helium got to hoist the existent woody up of Friday's crippled against Toronto successful a abbreviated solemnisation for the champion abbreviated documentary Emmy won by "The Turnaround," which told the communicative of the 2023 lasting ovations credited with turning astir his season.

"The Turnaround" won a Sports Emmy successful May, and sports documentary shaper Kyle Thrash and Phillies instrumentality Jon McCann -- whose idiosyncratic struggles with intelligence wellness and kinship with Turner were the bosom of the movie -- attended the crippled to amusement disconnected their caller trophy to Turner.

"Trea Turner, we stock an Emmy together," McCann said arsenic helium shook Turner's manus connected the tract aft batting practice.

Turner work the inscription astatine the bottommost of the Emmy and promised the 2 fans helium would question to them successful conception 301 if helium stole a basal successful Friday's game.

"We get to bring a trophy backmost to the ballpark contiguous and stock it with truthful galore radical that were progressive successful the lasting ovation. It's beauteous incredible," Thrash said.

Philly sports fans, often billed arsenic immoderate of the worst successful sports, gave a slumping Turner lasting ovations successful at-bats passim the play successful an August 2023 bid to amusement helium had their afloat support.

Turner was successful the archetypal play of an 11-year, $300 cardinal woody with the Phillies but was batting conscionable .238 with 11 location runs and 39 RBIs. He was adjacent dropped to eighth successful the batting bid headed into that bid against Kansas City.

In 3 games implicit the play against the Royals, Turner went 4-for-12 with 2 doubles, a location tally and 5 RBIs and helium would yet assistance pb the Phillies to the playoffs.

Turner aboriginal helped wage for "Thank You, Philly" integer billboards successful the greater Philadelphia area.

The documentary was produced by Higher Ground, the media institution founded by erstwhile President Barack Obama and archetypal woman Michelle Obama

McCann, besides known arsenic "The Philly Captain," is simply a Philadelphia-based YouTuber and was 1 of the fans -- on with a Philly sports speech vigor big -- credited with rallying the fans to get down Turner.

"During the ceremony, 1 of the grant presenters said, 'When you spell up against the Olympics, you lose.' So I benignant of thought we already lost," McCann said. "We didn't. It was a great, large shock."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.