Dusty Baker’s son hits game-tying grand slam towards Astros: ‘Dinner on me tonight pops’

Houston Astros supervisor Dusty Baker has coached in Major League Baseball since 1995. 

Baker has nearly seen all of it in that point, together with profitable his first World Series final season in Houston after failing to win a hoop in his two earlier appearances as a supervisor. 

Dusty Baker Jr. of the Houston Astros indicators autographs for followers previous to a recreation towards the St. Louis Cardinals at Roger Dean Stadium March 6, 2023, in Jupiter, Fla.  (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

And now he will get to teach towards his son. 

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On Friday, Darren Baker, a minor leaguer within the Washington Nationals’ group, hit a game-tying grand slam within the ninth inning towards his father’s staff, and the Nats went on to win 11-7 in a spring coaching recreation. 

The 24-year-old shouldn’t be recognized for his energy, hitting simply three house runs in his skilled profession earlier than Friday’s grand slam. 

“I knew he was going to make contact,” Dusty Baker mentioned, in line with MLB.com, “as a result of he doesn’t strike out. But when the ball went up, I used to be simply hoping it could be a sacrifice fly and be proud of that. He’d get the RBI, and we’d get the win. But he hit it fairly good. He had a pair good at-bats. I didn’t know whether or not to be a proud papa or an indignant papa.”

Darren Baker of the Wilmington Blue Rocks (Nationals) within the sixth inning of an MLB All-Star Futures recreation at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles July 16, 2022.  (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News by way of Getty Images)

Darren, who completed final season in Double-A, additionally singled within the eighth inning. 

“It was unbelievable,” Darren mentioned. “I don’t know after I’ve been mobbed like that within the dugout. Jeter [Downs] was yelling at me. He was in entrance of me at second base. I don’t know, it was identical to an out-of-body sort of expertise.”

Houston Astros supervisor Dusty Baker poses along with his son, Washington Nationals minor league participant Darren Baker, after exchanging lineups earlier than a spring coaching recreation at The Ballpark of The Palm Beaches March 19, 2022, in West Palm Beach, Fla.  (Doug Murray/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Images)

It’s not the primary time the daddy and son have squared off, and the 2 exchanged lineup playing cards earlier than Friday’s recreation. 

“He thought he was going to play as we speak,” mentioned Dusty. “But he didn’t know when he was going to get in. [Nationals coach Tim] Bogar gave me the wave, after which my son gave me the wave that he was taking the lineup card out.”