Red Sox
In honor of Father's Day, Triston Casas was asked about his own father and the teachings he passed on to him over time during ESPN's broadcast of the Red Sox-Yankees game on Sunday.
The Boston first baseman didn’t disappoint, telling a wild story about how his father was once arrested during one in all his Little League games.
The drama began when Casas – barely six or seven years old – began crying on the bench because he didn’t wish to play in defense with the remainder of his team.
“One day I come out and cry (expletive) back in the dugout, and that's what a six-year-old does; he sits on the bench and cries and doesn't want to go out when his team is playing defense,” Casas recalled during a live interview with ESPN within the fourth inning. “So my dad, being the dad that he is, came out in the dugout and tried to teach me the lessons that he was teaching me in his own unique way. He actually grabbed me by the shirt, dragged me to the line and kicked me onto the field, Looney Tune style.
“And actually, one in all my best friends, who I went to highschool with, went on to play skilled football. His mother actually called child protective services and had my father arrested on the sector. Seriously, no joke. I see my father driving away in a police automotive, getting arrested and spending the night in jail.”
As chaotic as that day on the diamond may have been, Casas emphasized on the show that he had learned an “extremely worthwhile lesson” from the whole ordeal.
“I had a responsibility to my teammates. I had a responsibility to my coaches, to the parents who got here out that day, to all of the fans who were at that Little League game to go on the market and do my best, regardless of how I felt on the bench,” Casas said.
“No matter what I went through that day or whatever little difficulties I felt once I got here out, I apply that each time, because sometimes I just want to sit down on that bench once I come out and I need to cry and scream. But that's not how baseball works.”
Casas has been on the road to recovery for nearly two months after tearing cartilage in his rib cage in late April, but he is already making significant progress.
Accordingly Julian McWilliams from , Casas has begun swinging the bat again as he recovers – and hopes to be back in Boston's lineup by the beginning of the team's series against the Marlins, which begins July 2.
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