Houston star Colton Cowser celebrates major league milestone at Minute Maid Park

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — There were plenty of high-fives, hugs and handshakes this weekend at Minute Maid Park to celebrate Orioles outfielder Colton Cowser.

“A lot of memories come back to this stadium growing up,” Cowser said. “I came to a lot of games.”

The Cy Ranch and Sam Houston alum played against the team he grew up watching on a field he went to camps on as a kid.

“I was going through my camera roll and I found a picture of me and my mom and my brother in the stands here when I was probably five years old,” Cowser said.

“It’s really cool to look at this and see where I am today. I have to say it’s pretty surreal, it’s pretty cool,” said Dale, Cowser’s father. “We’ve come to dozens and dozens of games here as father, son, mom, and now to see your son hit BP at Minute Maid against the Astros on a big league team; it’s pretty cool.”

Cowser shares the accomplishment with family and friends and says his time playing at Cy Ranch helped prepare him for this moment.

It’s quite an achievement to excel in a sport where you fail more often than you succeed.

“If you don’t look at those failures as learning opportunities, then they really are failures, so I think learning from your mistakes and your failures is just as important as being successful,” Cowser said.

Growing up, Cowser said the “Killer B’s” were his favorite Astros players and now that he’s a major player, he’s found his own fan.

At home games in Baltimore, you can find Oriole fans sitting together to support Cowser wearing a cow-print outfit.

This section is aptly called the pasture. “We’ll see if any cows will make the trip,” Cowser said. It’s pretty cool to see the fans wearing their fan gear.”

It started as a single-game event that grew not only at Camden Yards, but also at the Orioles’ away games, with the movement likely to only get bigger from here.