OMG!
johngriffen wrote:It's too bad the Rangers weren't on the list for the Home Run Derby...Guzman hits 3 HRs in front of family in Bronx
Ranger is first rookie with 3-homer game
NEW YORK -- Rangers first baseman Ronald Guzman wasn't expecting to hit three home runs in a game, but he badly wanted to hit at least one on Friday night.
He wanted to hit one for his father, Manuel Guzman, who was one of 30 or so people who flew from the Dominican Republic to watch the 23-year-old rookie play. Many of the others had seen Guzman play in Arlington, but this was the first time for Manuel, who doesn't like to fly. He may reconsider that after the special night his son put on for him at Yankee Stadium.
Guzman put on a show for his father, mother Margarita, brothers Edward and Randy, and the rest as he hit three home runs to carry the Rangers to a 12-7 victory over the Yankees in the Bronx.
"I don't know … I don't know how to put the words together," Guzman said. "I mean coming in today, I wanted to hit at least one for them. I was more nervous than my first day in the big leagues. I got the first one out of the way, it was an amazing feeling … pointing at them, seeing them so happy and jumping around. There is no better feeling than that."
His father had the same feeling.
"For a father, for the first time to visit, it's very emotional for him to hit three home runs," Manuel Guzman said. "It's a great gift for seeing my son play coming straight from the Dominican Republic."
But this rose is an extra. - A. Conan Doyle