Chase Utley: 'The Whole Experience Was Truly Incredible'

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It's not often when an opposing player receives a curtain call, let alone two curtain calls in the same game.

But then again, it's not often a player like Chase Utley comes around. And it's certainly not often when a 37-year-old leadoff hitter goes 2-4 with two home runs, including a grand slam in his first game back to the city he spent over a decade in.

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But that's Chase.

"The whole night was different," Utley told the 94WIP Mike & Ike Show on Wednesday. "Obviously very, very cool. Very appreciative of how the fans treated me. I didn't anticipate a curtain call if you will. And then to have two is crazy, totally crazy. My teammates were giving me slack about it, but the whole experience was truly incredible."

Listen: Chase Utley on the 94WIP Mike & Ike Show

There has been some debate among Philly sports media about whether the second curtain call, after Utley's 7th inning grand slam to give the Dodgers a commanding 13-2 lead, was appropriate.

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"The last thing I want to do is be disrespectful to the Phillies team," Utley said. "That's the last thing I want to do. So those are situations that you never really put yourself in and I wanted to do what I thought the fans wanted, but at the same time I didn't want to disrespect the Phillies team. I hope they aren't disrespected. I don't like they are, but I just hope they aren't."

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Utley's first at-bat didn't go as well. After a nearly two-minute ovation to start the game, Utley struck out. He says it was the most nervous at-bat of his life.

"It's hard to really describe," Utley said of his return to Philly. "I was kind of anticipating an ovation, but not nearly that long and that loud. It was so cool. That at-bat went by extremely fast. I just wanted to do my best -- I haven't seen any footage of what it looked like -- I just wanted to do my best to show appreciation to the fans for the way they've treated me so well for a long time.

"That first at-bat, no joke, it was probably the most nervous I've ever been in the batters box in my life. I was appreciative of the support, but I was happy when it was over for sure. I wanted to do so well for the fans, it kind of takes you out of your comfort zone if you will. But that's OK, it was well worth it."