“Baseball is a game for parents and kids,” someone once said.
Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw found out again tonight when he got up to leave his All-Star Game press conference and a media member told him, “Clayton, I think there’s a child who is trying to ask you. [something]. ”
“Oh man, I’m sorry,” Kershaw said as Blake Grice, 10, approached him. “That has?”
Grice, who according to Fox11’s Geraud Moncuré, entered the press conference because “he has a media Instagram,” approached the Dodgers legend and told him a story about his grandfather, Graham, who died of a brain cancer seven years ago.
In front of the assembled media, Grice told Kershaw that when her grandfather was ill, she made a list with her two grandchildren of everything they would do together once the cancer was over: go to the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, meet Vin Scully. .
It also included the meeting with Kershaw. But a week after writing the list, Graham died. Since then, Grice told Kershaw, his family has tried to do everything on the list.
“My grandfather loved you,” Blake told Kershaw as he struggled to hold back tears. “He saw it in 1988 [World] You would be and I wanted to meet you and Vin Scully someday. So that moment is important to me because I find you for him. “
At that moment, Kershaw, who has four children, three of them children, came out from behind the podium and said, “Come here, man, great to meet you,” hugging Grice as he did so. “Thanks for telling me. It took a lot of courage to tell me that. Nice to meet you. Your grandfather sounded like a fantastic guy. Thanks for coming.”
After talking for a while and taking a picture, Grice hugged Kershaw and then ran to her father, who was waiting for him at the back of the room.
Watch it below.
Clayton Kershaw thought his press conference was over when he was surprised by a 10-year-old boy.
The boy’s grandfather made a list of things. In this list: meet Clayton Kershaw. This never happened. He died of cancer. But today Blake Grice met Kershaw. Feel your pappy with him. pic.twitter.com/K5KGcd5ozO
– Steve Saldivar (@stevesaldivar) July 20, 2022