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Watch Dustin Pedroia Duck Out Of A Game To Witness The Birth Of His Child

These days, if you’re a Red Sox player you’d make up just about any excuse to get yourself out of having to play baseball. Lucky for Dustin Pedroia, his wife Kelli was going into labor with the couple’s second child. Bobby V informed his second baseman during the seventh-inning stretch Wednesday night, and it’s harder to tell whether or not Dustin is more excited about the impending birth of his child, or his chance to get away from those godawful Red Sox of his.

You see that face? That is one helluva face. It’s just about the exact opposite of this one. But how did the makeshift paternity leave affect the game? It was a close, 5-4 victory for the Bombers, after all. Well, Pedroia was replaced by Ivan DeJesus, who promptly struck out in Pedroia’s place in the eighth inning. What might have been.

It’s not like the Red Sox have anything left to play for this season, but when all else fails, at least you can always still spoil the Yankees’ dreams and October aspirations. Let’s hope Dustin Pedroia’s little bundle of joy played no part in indirectly advancing the Yanks to the playoffs, or else the little tyke and his daddy might have to face the music in Beantown.

[h/t Big League Stew]

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