While the rivalry has cooled off a bit in recent years, you still never quite know what you’ll see when the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox are matched up on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball.
Sunday’s Father’s Day finale saw the Red Sox cruise to a 9-3 victory to take the series behind a franchise-record nine stolen bases.
It also featured Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas telling a wild story about the time his father was taken to jail during one of his little league games.
“I’m in coach pitch, and I’m so young. I don’t really know what’s going on at this point I’m still playing baseball to burn some calories and get some sun. I made an out one day and I was crying and p*****. That’s what a six-year-old does, he sits on the bench and cries and doesn’t want to go out there when his team is playing defense,” Casas said.
His dad, however, wasn’t having any of this and wanted to teach his son a fatherly lesson.
“My dad, being the dad that he is, trying to teach me the lessons that he did in his own special way, came into the dugout. He grabbed me by the shirt, dragged me to the line, and Looney Tunes-style kicked me out onto the field,” Casas added.
The lesson wasn’t without consequence for Casas’ dad, though, as the infielder explains.
“One of my best friends, his mom called child services and had my dad arrested at the field,” Casas said. “I see my dad go away in the cop car, he gets arrested and spends the night in jail.”
The good news? The lesson worked and Casas has remembered it forever.
“That day, my dad taught me a super valuable lesson. I had a responsibility to my teammates, to the coaches, to the parents who showed up that day, to the fans, to go out there and give my best effort no matter how I was feeling on the bench or what I was going through that day that I still apply every single time,” he said. “Sometimes I just want to sit on the bench after I get out and I want to weep and want to cry, but that’s not how baseball ends.”
The interview ended on a positive note, as Casas said he loves his dad and wouldn’t be in the majors without him.
