Despite some success so far this year, the loss of Wheeler will loom as a challenge for as long as the Phillies' season lasts. But no matter how the rest of this season shakes up, the team will be participating in historic clash with the Minnesota Twins next year.

It was back in 2021 that actor Kevin Costner famously emerged from the cornstalks at a specially constructed diamond at the "Field of Dreams" movie site and led the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees into the stadium for what turned out to be one of Major League Baseball's most memorable events.