ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. It's right there on his shirt most days, and on his hat, too. For Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Brett Phillips, his brand statement says it all."Baseball is fun.''And it is. Everything Brett Phillips does on a baseball field, he does with a smile on his face. He thoroughly loves being a major-league baseball player, and Genard Avery Jersey is proof positive that little-boy dreams do come true. Growing up in Seminole, Fla., the first suburb north and west from St. Petersburg, he would go to Tampa Bay Rays games at Tropicana Field to watch the pros play the same exact game that he loved as a kid.Now he's one of them, playing on that same field where those first dreams were formed. And this week, every time you turned around, there was the 27-year-old Phillips doing something amazing. Sure, those occasional ''viral'' moments that want to ''break the internet'' happen, but three days in a row? To the same guy?That was Brett Phillips' week. It was all very cool, and it just got better and better every day.He's the local kid doing great things, and then watching them all play out on national TV, from ESPN to the Today Show, and seemingly every other media outlet and platform in between."He's such a great dude on and off the field, and you root for guys like him who are are humble and truly appreciative of getting to play this game in your hometown,'' said former Rays pitcher and current broadcaster Doug Waechter, who was the first local hero for this franchise from 2003-06 as a St. Petersburg native who made it to the big leagues right at home."That's one of the reasons why he has so much fun doing all those things, because he's always got friends and family around, and all those people mean so much to him."He doesn't take anything for granted. You want to root for guys like that, because he's such a great role model. Those kids who look up to him now? He was one of those kids himself not too long ago. Andhe's got a flare for the dramatic, right? It's must-watch TV with him, because you just never know what might happen and you never know what he might say afterward. This week has certainly been an example of that. Every night, you turn around and the kid is doing something unreal. It's very, very cool to see, especially for a good kid like Brett. I love that kid, I really do.''He's not alone.A Sunday stroll like the old daysOne of the cool things the Rays do is let kids Damarious Randall Jersey run the bases on Sundays after a game. Brett Phillips used to do that as a kid with his sister, Brittany. Last Sunday, after the Rays had beaten the Orioles, Phillips was out on the field saying hello to Brittany and some other friends.My sister was like, Here we are 20 years later. Want to run the bases with the kids? I was like, Heck, yeah, I do. That was a nice little memory.Phillips circled the bases with the kids, and even did his arms-outstretched flight to home like he did after his 2020 Myles Garrett Jersey World Series walk-off hit. The moment got shared on social media ... and went viral. The video has been seen nearly 200,000 times since last Sunday.Even after he was done, he ran into the Rays locker room, where a little postgame celebration was going on after the 8-0 win. Phillips was euphoric. "I just ran the bases with the kids, It was so cool,'' he said. "That was so much fun.''Then the next night, there was Phillips again. The Rays were getting clubbed by the Oakland A's for their first lo s of the season, and the bullpen was getting taxed. Rays manager Kevin Cash came to him about pitching a few innings to save the bullpen for the next day."He needed me for two innings, but I told him I could go four,'' Phillips said afterward.Phillips has pitched in a pinch before, and his antics and animations on the mound went viral then. So this brought back more memories and then he made more.Phillips worked his way through the Oakland lineup with his 40-something miles per hour stuff. He coaxed a foul pop near the third-base dugout, and he sprinted off the mound and made a brilliant sliding catch, able to do so thanks to lots of Slip N' Slide experience as a kid.When you come off the mound and you're going fast off a steep hill like I did, you have more momentum to get to where you have to be, he said. Obviously, going back to my Slip N Slide days, I know toward the end of the Slip N Slide, you always want to be prepared to bounce back up, because you know you have someone coming behind you and you dont want to get hit. So I just slid, popped up, and got back where I needed to be.Phillips pitched a 1-2-3 eighth inning, ending his five-pitch inning the lowest by a Rays ''pitcher'' all year with a double play. He walked off the mound to a standing ovation.But Phillips gave up a grand slam in the ninth in a 13-2 lo s. After the game, he completely dead-panned his way through a postgame interview, and it was hilarious. (The video is at the top of the story.)He said, If I dont win catch of the year for pitcher, Ill be highly disappointed and talked ''like a pitcher'' throughout the entire interview. He even said that he was going to have tell his mom why he gave up a grand slam basically explain to her that I just didnt have my best stuff tonight and that he was more mad about the two walks he gave up before the homer by Spencer Neuse ''a guy 200-pounds plus who's made of steel and can hit baseballs really far.''Phillips' catch and his expre sions on the Jarvis Landry Jersey mound made all the national highlight shows for the second day in a row. But that just set the stage for a Tuesday night that brought us all to tears.A girl named Chloe, and perfect timingChloe Grimes is an adorable 8-year-old girl who got to throw out the first pitch on Tuesday night at the Rays' game. She's battling thyroid cancer for the second time something no kid should ever have to go through and she was part of the Rays' Children's Dream Fund effort that they do on Tuesday night.Brett Phillips is her favorite Rays player. They got to meet before the game, and when they did, she gave Phillips a bracelet, a signed softball and a nice note.In the third inning of the game, Chloe was being interviewed on the Rays' TV broadcast by Tricia Whitaker, and during the interview, Phillips hit a home run.Now that's one special and amazing for its timing moment.After the game, Phillips was in tears in trying to describe what all that meant to him. At his locker afterward, he showed off all things Chloe had given him as if she was Sione Takitaki Jersey the hero ''she IS the hero,'' Phillips said. "This is her story, not mine. I was just glad to be a small part of it.''His home run ball got stuck up in the C-ring at the dome, but the next day a Tropicana Field maintenance worker retrieved it so Phillips could sign it and give it to her. All of that, too, made national news, and brought thousands of people to tears.She is such an amazing young lady who has had to deal with so much, and that w