It wasn’t the perfect Mother’s Day story, because unfortunately, Dallas Braden’s mother wasn’t there to be part of it. She died in 2001 of cancer.
But with Peggy Lindsey in the Oakland Coliseum stands to exhort her grandson as he made history Sunday with baseball’s 19th perfect game, it was perhaps the next best thing to the perfect holiday-themed subplot. And an exceedingly touching one.
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Just seconds after being mobbed by his teammates after retiring 27 consecutive Tampa Bay Rays, the A’s Braden made a beeline for the stands and embraced Grandma Peggy, who moments before had tried to jump the rail to get to Dallas but was restrained by security.