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Charles Curtis

Garrett Mitchell crediting his wife’s absence for walk-off HR led to some funny tweets

Garrett Mitchell had a message for his wife in his postgame interview after crushing a walkoff home run against the New York Mets on Wednesday.

“I was thinking about this, but: When my wife doesn’t show up to the games,” he said to Sophia Minnaert, “usually something good happens. Going into that at-bat, I was like, ‘Man, well, she’s not here, so might as well do something fun.'”

LOL! Mitchell is married to pro softball player Haley Cruse Mitchell, who definitely saw the interview and had to say something on Twitter. Actually, it was a bunch of things and they were all very funny:

Garrett made up for it though:

But …

Too funny. Here’s a photo of them:

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