Phillies outfielder Aaron Altherr is card #444 in the 2018 Topps set.
I pulled this card out of a factory set that was recently given to me.
Interesting note that Altherr was the first to hit a grand slam off Clayton Kershaw.
Happened in 2017, 1,922 2/3 innings into Kershaw's career. I wonder if the photo on the card is of that grand slam. He's kinda in a grand slam pose, eyes to the sky.
I also wonder if Altherr got drilled the next time Kershaw faced him. I do know that Retrosheet indicates that the grand slam was the only hit Altherr has gotten off Kershaw in 6 career at bats.
Altherr was not hit by a pitch in that game https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI201709180.shtml nor the next time he faced Kershaw, which was in May of the next season https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN201805310.shtml In fact there were no HBPs in either game.
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