SAN DIEGO — Mike Yastrzemski is breathless with excitement. He spent months awaiting this day. He is ready to celebrate a new beginning.
The San Francisco Giants’ season opener against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park? Well, sure. Yastrzemski hasn’t taken a single moment of his major-league life for granted. He stood on the chalk line for the anthem, made a couple of running catches in right field, batted fifth in the lineup against Padres right-hander Yu Darvish, watched teammate Jung Hoo Lee collect his first big-league hit and RBI, and soaked up his fifth Opening Day start in a Giants uniform.
Then Yastrzemski raced back to San Francisco for an even more important Opening Day. He and his wife, Paige, are scheduled to induce labor Friday.
“This being our second, hopefully we can convince them we’re capable of taking care of a child and get out of there quickly,” Yastrzemski said. “Hopefully I’ll be back after a couple days.”
You cannot tell much of anything about a person on the first day of their life. You cannot gauge what kind of personality they will exhibit or what interests they will follow, whether they will snort when they laugh or whether they’ll prefer cake to pie. You only hope that they arrive healthy and with no complications. The rest is a…
