The Philadelphia Phillies won’t put on their pink jerseys through the 2024 season, confirms Tim Kelly from Phillies Nation. SportsLogos.Internet’s sources have additionally backed up this affirmation. It’s occurring.
Hypothesis is that the uniform was faraway from the group’s rotation resulting from Nike’s 4 plus 1 guideline, which caps a group at 4 jersey designs per season (together with Spring Coaching) plus one “City Connect” choice. Through the 2023 season, the Phillies had a house white, dwelling alternate cream, highway gray, throwback powder blue, and a highway alternate pink — that’s 5, one too many in Nike’s new MLB uniform world.
The pink alternate jerseys have been the primary usually worn regular-season pink uniforms within the lengthy historical past of the Phillies. Making the soar from Spring Coaching to significant baseball in 2016, these jerseys have been worn sometimes within the 2016 and 2017 seasons. After a hiatus, they reappeared for 2021 and 2022, culminating in 19 highway appearances in 2023. Their ultimate recreation motion was through the Phillies’ 6-1 victory over Arizona in Recreation 5 of the NLCS — the membership’s final victory of 2023.
