It's a girl! Pfaadt sports pink laces to help with gender reveal for brother's family
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PHILADELPHIA -- Brandon Pfaadt took a little extra time in lacing up his spikes before his start against the Phillies on Saturday afternoon, being careful to line up the pink laces just right.
That's because the laces weren't there just to hold his feet in, but they were delivering an important message to his family watching on television back home in Kentucky.
“You may note that Brandon is wearing pink laces on his cleats for this afternoon’s start," Arizona television play-by-play man Steve Berthiaume said as Pfaadt took the mound. "These are not ordinary laces. This is a special note from Brandon and his younger brother Brett for Brett’s wife, Hannah, and their whole family: ‘We are pleased to announce that Brandon is wearing specially selected gender-reveal shoelaces. So congratulations Brett and Hannah. It’s a girl!’”
"It's special for him to ask me that, and for me to be able to do it," Brandon Pfaadt said. "I'm a proud older brother. It's the first baby in the family, so it's something to look forward to for the whole family. And we're just happy for them."
Brett Pfaadt approached his brother not long ago about the idea, and while Brandon loved it, there was some negotiating that had to happen.
“Well, first he wanted me to use a pink glove,” Brandon said with a smile. “I said, 'I can't do that.' Then, pink cleats. I was like, 'How about we go shoelaces?' And so we kind of met in the middle, and it worked out.”
Brandon’s wife went out and found the shoelaces last week while the team was in New York for a series against the Mets.
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The news wasn’t all good for Pfaadt on Saturday as he allowed four runs (three earned) in the third inning. In his other five innings of work, he held the Phillies scoreless, but it was not enough to get a win as a 4-3 loss at Citizens Bank Park snapped the Diamondbacks’ three-game winning streak.