Ex-Red Sox Star Gets Baby Named After Him After Winning Bet With Fan

More fans will probably do this now

The Major League Baseball season is so long that you see new things at the ballpark every single year.

Today, former Boston Red Sox star Mookie Betts explained a unique, awesome encounter with a fan from a game in Arizona a few weeks ago.

"I was on deck and this guy started talking to me and said 'Mook, if you hit a home run, I'll name my daughter, her middle name Mookie,'" Betts said on Twitter. "That at-bat is when I hit, I think, the furthest home run I've hit in my career. And so I circle the bases, come back and give him a fist bump.

"A couple weeks later I see the birth certificate for Francesca Mookie Mancuso. Shoutout to you, Giuseppe. I can't wait to meet Francesca. That's going to be my girl. So I thought that was pretty neat."

These are my favorite stories that happen over the course of a long baseball season. The fan interactions with players that aren't just useless slander or wasted chants are what it's all about. 

The fact that this Los Angeles Dodgers fan followed through and actually gave his daughter the middle name of Mookie is just awesome. I mean, after that whole story took place he kind of had no choice, but he and his wife still deserve credit for making this a cool story.

And of course credit to Betts for posting the story on Twitter and hitting an absolute blast to make this bet go down.

Baseball wins today.

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