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Family sees Benintendi get first two hits
- Updated: August 4, 2016
SEATTLE — If Andrew Benintendi remained calm on the outside after striking his first Major League hit, a laser single to left in the third inning, his family members let the emotion flow in their seats behind home plate.
Chris Benintendi, Andrew’s dad, raised his arms in triumph and stayed in that pose for a while. Jill, Andrew’s mother, hugged nearby family members.
“That was a lot of fun,” said Chris Benintendi. “He played well, number one, but he was able to share this experience with 18 people here from Cincinnati and countless others back home watching it on TV so it was great.”
It was a moment nobody in the family will ever forget, and the only bummer was that the Red Sox took a 3-1 loss to the Mariners.
On a night Boston produced just seven hits, two came from Benintendi, who also laced a single to right in the eighth.
“It felt good to get it out of the way,” said Andrew Benintendi. “I don’t really know how to explain it. Just one of those things you dream about your entire life. Got to first base, and it kind of set in. It was really exciting.”
Just 14 months after he was drafted by the Red Sox, it’s a bit surreal for Benintendi and his family that he’s in the Major Leagues and ready to help out in a pennant race.
Would the word ecstatic accurately summed up the way the family felt when Andrew Benintendi was summoned to the Major Leagues earlier this week?
“I guess you could say that. I think we all were,” said Chris. “Quite honestly, we’re thrilled with Andrew because this was a goal of his and he accomplished a goal and it’s no different than our daughters …
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