It’s never a certainty when a pro baseball player hits a milestone home run that they’ll easily be able to retrieve the home-run ball as a memento. One way to solve the problem is to simply hit that home run to your dad.
Brewers second-round draft pick Sawyer Strosnider launched his first professional home run for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers on Aug. 19, a go-ahead homer that gave the Class High A affiliate the lead in the seventh inning. At the receiving end beyond the right field wall in Appleton? None other than Strosnider’s father, Scott.
One in a million. 🤯
Sawyer Strosnider’s dad was on the receiving end of his son’s FIRST pro-homer! #tratnationpic.twitter.com/i6PeLJYxBw
— Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (@TimberRattlers) August 19, 2026
FIRST PRO HOME RUN FOR SAWYER STROSNIDER🔥
Strosnider blasted a solo shot 103 mph off the bat!
Rattlers 3 | Captains 2 #tratnationpic.twitter.com/7wpdFcPsB2
— Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (@TimberRattlers) August 19, 2026
POV: Your dad catches your first pro-homer. https://t.co/numMM2lR1Opic.twitter.com/hJ1nDs6d0v
— Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (@TimberRattlers) August 19, 2026
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Scott even tried videoing the moment, which … well, you can see for yourself that he wasn’t quite able to keep the phone focused on the fly ball into his hands. But the audible “Hey, that’s my son!” sure does add to the moment.
“I’ve seen him take tens of thousands of swings, been at so many ball games, and I just had a feeling that he was due,” Scott told MLB.com. “We’re going home tomorrow, so I thought maybe this last at-bat he’ll catch one. I went out, and I thought let’s see what happens. I videotaped it, and as it was coming to me, I thought that this ball had a chance to land right to me. So I dropped my phone, and I actually caught the ball.”
The Rattlers wound up prevailing, 5-3, with fellow prospect Eric Bitonti adding a moon shot home run for insurance that landed in an area well past where Scott was standing. Bitonti became the third player on the Rattlers this season to clear 20 homers, joining the since-promoted Braylon Payne and Andrew Fischer.
Stronsider, an outfielder drafted out of TCU, has 10 hits in his first 30 at-bats with the Timber Rattlers, posting a .979 OPS in the early going of his pro career. His first career pro hit was a triple, and he has a pair of doubles as well.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brewers prospect hits first professional home run, caught by his dad
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