Like father, like son: Justin Crawford joins dad Carl in baseball history playing for manager Don Mattingly
This is quite the full-circle moment.
Like father, like son: Justin Crawford joins dad Carl in baseball history playing for manager Don Mattingly originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . It had been a dozen years, but Don Mattingly had seen something quite like this before.
In April of 2014, with Mattingly managing the Los Angeles Dodgers , Carl Crawford delivered a game-winning, walk-off hit. And now on the final day of April 2026, Justin Crawford did the same thing while Mattingly managed the Philadelphia Phillies . Yep, a father and a son with walk-off hits for the same manager 12 years apart.
What are the odds of that? April 8, 2014 - Carl Crawford gets walkoff hit for the Dodgers. His manager: Don Mattingly April 30, 2026 - Justin Crawford gets walkoff hit for the Phillies.
His manager: Don Mattingly Baseball! pic. twitter.