The hard-working father awoke Friday at 4 a.m. and was off to teach classes.
He only has three weeks until retirement and there’s no slacking now. Not ever and not in the home stretch.
He worked around the house when he returned home, waited through an hour rain delay, watched his son’s first at-bat (a ground ball for the final out of the first) on Friday night and headed to bed.
He told his wife Silvana and his sister Elizabeth he’d seen his son have hundreds of at-bats. He’d watch the replay Saturday morn when he woke.