Brett Gardner’s Friday turned out to be quite memorable. Not only did he hit an inside-the-park home run, he tripled in the ninth to start the Yankees winning rally. That was part of a 3 for 3 day (he missed the cycle by a double) in a game he didn’t start. Damon got himself ejected, setting up Gardner’s heroics.
He also received some help from a hospitalized child:
“I met with several different children, probably 15 or 20, and one little girl, she gave me a bracelet,” Gardner said of his pregame trip to Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at New York Presbyterian yesterday, before he went out and played a huge role — including delivering an inside the park home run — in the Yanks’ 5-4 win over the Twins. “I asked what it was for and she said it was for me and she told me that if I kept it I would hit a home run and she said I’d hit a home run tonight.”
He kept the gift in his locker. He hit a home run. He did lots more. He met so many kids, he doesn’t remember the little girl’s name — but he remembers her face. And he’ll always remember last night.
That’s probably why he was running so hard on the inside-the-park homer.
And of course, it reminds you of this (excuse the bad baseball by Gary Cooper):
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