TheComeback- The Fairfield Stags’ college baseball team had their home finale on Tuesday against UMass. That also meant the final home game for the Stags’ seniors, and of those seniors is first baseman Drew Blake.
In the bottom of the sixth, Blake crushed a two-run homer all the way to a parking lot well beyond the right-center field wall at Alumni Baseball Diamond. The ball landed right in the arms of the one fan standing in the parking lot. That fan is Blake’s dad. ---------- Sometimes sports are just too weird for words, and I say that knowing full well that Drew Blake's father was strategically standing out past that part of the outfield in case his son got all of a pitch in his wheel house during the last home game of his college career. Still, even you consider that the most mild of foresight made that feel-good moment possible, it's tough to argue that you wouldn't roll your eyes if you saw something as unlikely as a game-tying dinger directly to dad serve as a heartwarming scene in a movie. I mean, that ball wouldn't have been any easier for his father to catch if it was magnetized to his belt buckle. Maybe, and only maybe, it could have been more perfectly placed if it were tossed to him from right field. Other than that, he's probably had to move more during the passing of the asparagus than he did when taking one half-step to his left to casually corral a 400 foot bomb from the bat of his boy. It's also cool, awesome, and a whole host of other adjectives when sports give friends and families unforgettable memories to share, but - in this case especially - you'd have to include 'weird' in the list of ways to describe a college athlete being able to cap off his career with such a perfect caption.
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