Cleveland outfielder Bradley Zimmer lived every younger brothers’ dream on Monday when he stepped to the plate in a Major League Baseball game and crushed a home run… off his older brother Kyle Zimmer, who is a relief pitcher for Kansas City Royals.
What are the odds of that happening? Well, it’s just the fourth time in modern history that a brother has hit a home run off his brother in a MLB game. It just doesn’t happen.
But it happened Monday for the 28-year-old Bradley Zimmer, who is two years younger thank his brother.
And it was an absolute no-doubter. Check this thing out:
Bradley Zimmer hit a homer off his brother Kyle Zimmer.
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You’d think that Bradley would have fun rubbing that in the face of his brother but instead he had a more mature, and sweet, reaction to it, saying after the game, via MLB.com:
“I’d say it’s a mix of emotions,” Bradley Zimmer said. “I don’t necessarily pride myself just because I hit that off of my brother. Hopefully, someday, we’ll be on the same team. I’d like to be on the same team. It was fun. It was a little, I guess, redemption. He got me the first time, so I had to make it even.”
That’s a good brother right there. I would have definitely been more of a jerk about it.
Kyle did strike out his younger brother earlier this season so now they’re even, I guess.
MLB fans loved the whole thing:
