page_title: Phil Regan (baseball)
section_title: Chicago Cubs
hierarchical_section_title: Phil Regan (baseball) / Chicago Cubs
caption_attribution_description: English: Professional baseball player Phil Regan
context_page_description: Philip Ramond Regan is an American former professional baseball pitcher, scout, and manager, who played in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, and Chicago White Sox; he also managed the Baltimore Orioles. Regan served as the pitching coach for the New York Mets for part of the 2019 season.
  During the 1966 season, when Regan was Walter Alston's favorite pitcher from the Dodger bullpen, teammate Sandy Koufax nicknamed Regan "The Vulture", due to his knack for earning wins in late-inning relief situations.
context_section_description: Regan provided similar heroics for his new team. In his first two appearances as a Cub, he saved both games of an April 28 doubleheader with the Houston Astros. Despite missing the first 14 games of the Cubs' schedule, Regan led all of Major League Baseball with 25 saves in 1968 on his way to capturing a second Sporting News Reliever of the Year Award.
  He was involved in a bizarre incident on August 18, 1968, against the Cincinnati Reds. Regan apparently had good stuff that day, too good for home plate umpire Chris Pelekoudas. Despite no illegal substances being found on the ball, Pelekoudas called 14 illegal pitches on Regan based simply on the movement of the ball. Regan met with NL President Warren Giles August 20, and was absolved of any wrongdoing. The incident earned Regan a reputation that followed him the rest of his career.
caption: Regan in 1969 with the Chicago Cubs.
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