Triston Casas tells the story of his father’s arrest at a Little League game

“One day I come out and cry (expletive) back in the dugout, and that’s what a six-year-old does; he sits on the bench and cries and doesn’t want to go out when his team is playing defense,” Casas recalled during a live interview with ESPN in the fourth inning. “So my dad, being the dad that he is, came out in the dugout and tried to teach me the lessons that he was teaching me in his own unique way. He actually grabbed me by the shirt, dragged me to the line and kicked me onto the field, Looney Tune style.

“And actually, one of my best friends, who I went to high school with, went on to play professional football. His mother actually called child protective services and had my father arrested on the field. Seriously, no joke. I see my father driving away in a police car, getting arrested and spending the night in jail.”

As chaotic as that day on the diamond may have been, Casas emphasized on the show that he had learned an “extremely valuable lesson” from the whole ordeal.

“I had a responsibility to my teammates. I had a responsibility to my coaches, to the parents who came out that day, to all the fans who were at that Little League game to go out there and do my best, no matter how I felt on the bench,” Casas said.

“No matter what I went through that day or whatever little difficulties I felt when I came out, I apply that every time, because sometimes I just want to sit on that bench when I come out and I want to cry and scream. But that’s not how baseball works.”

Casas has been on the road to recovery for nearly two months after tearing cartilage in his rib cage in late April, but he is already making significant progress.

According to Julian McWilliams of The Boston GlobeCasas has begun swinging the bat again as he recovers – and hopes to be back in Boston’s lineup by the start of the team’s series against the Marlins, which begins July 2.

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