#Buster posey family series#

Never has that been more apparent than July, 2020, when he chose to sit out MLB’s truncated 60-game season in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic to protect the health of adopted newborn twin girls. “When I think back on those stories, there’s usually one or two common denominators, and it’s family and friends.”įor Posey, whose decision to retire centered around his desire to spend more time with his wife Kristen and their four children, baseball and family have long been synonymous. “Over the years I’ve heard a lot of stories about what the Giants mean or what baseball means to different fans,” Posey said. A five-year-old Buster watched Braves first baseman Sid Bream slide under a tag from Pirates catcher Mike LaValliere on a walk-off, pennant-clinching single. Posey’s childhood team, the Atlanta Braves, didn’t win the 1992 World Series, but the play that sent them there was one of his first memories of a sport that shaped his life. Nearly two decades before Posey stormed to the mound to greet Brian Wilson with a bear hug, he was enamored with a celebration involving a different club.

#Buster posey family series#

He cited Edgar Renteria’s game-winning home run against the Texas Rangers in 2010, Sergio Romo’s decision to shake off Posey’s call for a slider before he “snuck” a fastball past Miguel Cabrera to beat the Detroit Tigers in 2012, and a crowd of 45,000 at Kauffman Stadium going “deathly silent” when Madison Bumgarner emerged from the bullpen in Kansas City in 2014 because Royals fans “knew the game and the World Series was over.” SAN FRANCISCO - In the midst of an emotional retirement announcement on Thursday at Oracle Park, Buster Posey reflected on the moments that have shaped his fondest memories of the sport.