Longtime ESPN reporter Pedro Gomez doesn’t expense trips to visit his son, but he could. That’s because Rio Gomez is of the ilk his father covers, a professional baseball player blazing his own path toward the big leagues.
The elder Gomez has covered baseball in Bristol, Conn., since 2003, regularly appearing on shows such as “SportsCenter’’ and “Baseball Tonight.’’ The younger Gomez was selected by the Red Sox in the 36th round of the 2017 MLB Draft. Now they occupy a singular workplace — the diamond — and form a genial duo enacting many father-son dreams.
Pedro Gomez has seen the gamut of southpaw slingers.