Lombard Brothers Homer in Debut Games: A Historic Night

But I do want to mention St. Louis and New York and go back to last night real quick because to see what happened yesterday was just truly incredible. To see Jacob Lombard, who was the Marlins' 14th overall pick, homer in his first at-bat in Jupiter, Joe, which you could have seen. I don't know why you didn't go. You could have went to the game last night. You live five minutes away from there. He hit a homerun in his first at-bat, and then his brother in his first major league at-bat homers too. In fact, I've told you the story that I know his parents very well. They were asked why didn't they go see Jacob play his first game in Jupiter, and Jacob said to his mom and dad, what are you, nuts? You got to go see George play his first major league game. They went, and imagine being the parents there. What an amazing night to have both of your kids, minor league debut, major league debut, homer in the same night, man. By the way, I think I saw the exit velocity and launch angle were exactly the same for both kids. I mean, this is crazy, crazy stuff happening yesterday. We'll see what he does for an encore. I'm shocked that he homered, but I think what you saw early in the game, Joe, with him that I think will play for the Yankees, and unfortunately, that means I have to root for the Yankees a little bit because I have to root for George, so I have to root this much for the Yankees, is that his defense is much better than Volpe's. His defense is- Oh, like night and day. Yeah, yeah. He's going to help them a lot defensively. Yes. Night and day. They did the Yes Network, was in the stands, and they did a couple of innings with his parents. Detroit gave him the pass to actually go to Yankee Stadium because he should have been out on the West Coast in Seattle with the Tigers, but they did. They allowed him to go, and I believe their mom was on her way to Jupiter and had to change the tickets because they learned last minute that the Yankees were actually calling him up in front of the game, so she was actually ... They were coming to Jupiter to see his first game with the Marlins here, and unfortunately, the frequent flyer miles, I'm guessing they went ahead and had to exchange that because we're going to the Bronx instead, and kudos that they did. Pretty impressive stuff. Listen, I don't know- That was great. What does the brother play with the Marlins? What position is he drafted at? He's also an infielder. He's also an infielder, so shortstop, maybe third base, depending. He's still young. He could still grow and get bigger. Guys usually get bigger in the big leagues because now the weight rooms are more professional, but yeah, he was a great ... Jacob Lombard, the younger one, he was a great soccer player at Gulliver. They lived down in Pinecrest, and there was a time where he was playing exclusively soccer and not playing with the baseball team, and it was like pissing off the coach of the baseball team, but he loved soccer so much, and it just came to the point where he and his dad and his family just basically like, look, if you plan on making major league baseball part of your life, you're going to have to commit. I'm big on playing all the sports, but at some point, Joe, at 17, 18, you have to specialize on something, not when you're 12 or 13. That's what the insane part about youth baseball is now, is that all these kids are just specializing in one sport at nine and at 10, which is insane, but when you get to 17, you do have to sort of make the choice as to what you think your future is going to be, so eventually he did make the choice, and he moved away from soccer back to baseball, but growing up in a major league clubhouse and being on the field with your dad all the time, and he put a lot of work in, I know, through the years, so I'm not surprised they both are in some way in major league baseball or minor league baseball, but last night was flat out shocking to see that happen, the way it played out like that. I was just so happy for them. I couldn't believe it. I mean, honestly, Joe, top five story in baseball this year, what happened yesterday for those two? It may be high, maybe number one, but what are the top stories of the year? I agree. Turned a great double play, and both, I think the second and fifth, so defensively, hey, he had an encore here tonight against St. Louis, so we'll see if he follows that up.