Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brad Lidge's slider made baseball history, but the former Phillies closer is now digging into a very different kind of fieldwork.

Some retired MLB players become coaches. Some retired MLB players become broadcasters. Former All-Star closer Brad Lidge chose a different path. The former Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies ...

Re-airing the Phillies' 2008 postseason run, as we have been here at NBC Sports Philadelphia over the past week, has provided us with a reminder of just how talented a group of players the team had in ...

Lidge talks about the highs and lows of his playing days in Houston — including giving up a particular gut punch of a home run — and how down time on the road led him to his new career excavating ...

Lidge has been sidelined since spring training with a strained right rotator cuff. When Lidge was shut down last month, the team said he wouldn’t pick up a baseball for three to six weeks. That meant ...

Ten years ago this month, the Phillies won their second World Series title in franchise history. Over the next few weeks, Jim Salisbury will look back at the team's run through the NLCS and World ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brad Lidge's slider made baseball history, but the former Phillies closer is now digging into a very different kind of fieldwork.

Brad Lidge and Charlie Manuel had a meeting to discuss the struggling closer's role with the Philadelphia Phillies. Lidge and Manuel spoke after Wednesday night's game against Washington. The ...

They had Lidge write ‘Lights Out’ on the bulb in recognition of the former closer’s nickname. Below, Lidge signs the T-shirt of Megan Douglass, an Acme employee and student at Cape May Tech. Guy ...

today with shoulder soreness, and say he is likely to begin the season on the disabled list. The 34-year-old right-hander made his first appearance in nearly two weeks Thursday. He started the ninth ...

Philadelphia Phillies closer Brad Lidge is expected to be reinstated from the 15-day disabled list Thursday. Lidge has been sidelined with a sprained right knee since June 7. Lidge is 0-3 with a 7.27 ...

Brad Lidge's slider made baseball history, but the former Phillies closer is now digging into a very different kind of fieldwork. The 2008 World Series hero has traded saves for shovels as he pursues ...