Tag: Franmil Reyes

Cleveland’s Franmil Reyes surprised a cancer patient with a signed baseball and a home run

“This at-bat, I wanted to do something special for Jessica.”

Now this is one heartwarming story.

On Wednesday, during the Cleveland Indians game against the Texas Rangers, Franmil Reyes had a night to remember. Not only did Reyes slug it out on the field in Cleveland’s 7-2 victory, he also went above and beyond for a fan battling cancer.

Before his last bat of the evening, Reyes singled out Cleveland fan Jessica Atwood — who lost her mother to cancer then was diagnosed with breast cancer herself — in the crowd. Atwood’s story clearly touched Reyes, who signed a baseball for her and gave it to her with the message: “Jessica, we’re here for you. I love you.”

“He tosses this ball to my husband and my husband is, ‘okay, thanks,’ and he kind of stops,” Atwood said, according to WKYC Studios. “He’s standing there for a second and my husband looks down at the ball. I just see tears in his eyes, he hands it over to me and I just start crying. I’ve never cried at a baseball game before.”

Then, on that same at-bat, Reyes blasted a 451-foot home run and pointed to Atwood and her family in the crowd, dedicating the home run to her.

Reyes later reflected on his home run and his interaction with Atwood to Bally Sports Cleveland, stating that he hoped he could do something special during that at-bat for Atwood.

“I was like, ‘this is not enough, this baseball is not enough.’ So, when I was on deck, I said ‘please God, I know it’s been tough these couple days at the plate.’ I didn’t ask for a homer, but this at-bat I wanted to do something special for Jessica.”

What an incredible moment for Atwood and family, and what a lovely gesture from Reyes for going above and beyond here. This is what sports is all about.

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‘Fair-weather’ Indians fan gets roast of their life from radio call-in show host

“That proves what an ignoramus you are. Get off our show!”

Cleveland Indians radio show host Bruce Drennan does not have time for fair-weather fans. After the Indians’ 3-2 Opening Day loss to the Detroit Tigers on Thursday — in the snow, no less — some fans were not pleased with the team’s first game of the season, despite there being another 161 games to go.

Enter Drennan and his radio show “Drennan Live,” a live call-in talk show on Bally Sports Great Lakes. As Drennan took postgame calls, this Cleveland fan entered the picture to give their piece of mind on the Indians and the effort of some of the team’s players.

In typical radio host fashion, Drennan did not hold back on the caller with this roast of a lifetime.

Here is a copy of the important parts of the exchange:

Caller: The next guy… the good pitches down the middle, he won’t swing at, but the balls down around his ankles, he hits to shortstop into a double play! This has been going on for two years.

Drennan: I guess you missed a lot of the games that [Franmil] Reyes hit in the clutch last year, huh?

Caller: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Drennan: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You’re an idiot. You’re an idiot and you don’t know baseball. Oh, you are an idiot. Listen, you’re gonna tell me you are judging… you don’t know anything. You don’t know squat, you stupid idiot. You’re gonna tell me you’re gonna make a judgment on the season after one game, in 30 degree weather? That proves what an ignoramus you are. Get off our show! Fair-weather idiot.

Now that is how you dismantle a fan’s overreaction to game one out of 162.

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