The only thing missing was J.T. Snow.
In a heartwarming father-son moment, Astros manager Dusty Baker and Nationals prospect Darren Baker exchanged lineup cards before the Houston-Washington spring training game on Sunday afternoon.
Normally, Nationals manager Dave Martinez would take the lineup card to home plate, but instead he sent up the 23-year-old second baseman to greet his father — a longtime MLB manager and former Nationals skipper.
It’s not the first time baseball fans were introduced to Darren Baker around home plate. In Game 5 of the 2002 World Series, a 3-year-old Darren Baker, the bat boy for his father’s Giants, was swooped up by Snow, San Francisco’s first baseman, as he crossed the plate.