Orioles Rookie's Mom Overwhelmed with Emotion After Son's First Home Run

Wave it bye-bye! There goes — Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles)September 21, 2016

Move over Steven Matz's Grandpa Bert Moller, there's a new "best parent watching their boy make his major league debut" parent in town. Well, in Baltimore anyway.

Last night, in the fifth inning of Baltimore's game the Red Sox, Orioles first baseman Trey Mancini stepped to the dish for his second plate appearance in the bigs. This wasn't some playing-out-the-string type scenario for the 8th round 2013 draft pick out of Notre Dame either, it was smack dab in a scorching Wild Card race. The Orioles, currently sitting in the second Wild Card slot, are only a game behind the Blue Jays for the home game, but also have the Tigers, Astros, and Mariners breathing down their necks. Pretty much every at-bat from here on out is huge.

All Mancini did in the heat of the playoff pressure was go Moon River off Red Sox starter Eduardo Rodriguez, mashing a line drive tater to left center. The Camden Yards crowd went nuts for Mancini's first MLB hit, but no one was more excited than Trey's Mom, Beth, a lifelong Orioles fan who grew up in nearby Bowie, Maryland.

Beth's reaction to her son's home run is wonderful. As he rounds the bases, she runs the gamut, pure exhilaration distilled through hugs, tears, screams, mouth-covering OMG!!!, and perhaps a brief moment of realization that after all those years of time and effort the family put in, her boy made it. The smile on her face when she gets the gopher ball is well…excuse me for a moment, something in my eye…

One proud mom! Trey Mancini's mom, Beth, got to witness her son's debut, and his first hit/home run. She gets the HR ball, too. — Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles)September 21, 2016

If that wasn't enough to get the saline dripping out your peepers, Trey told the Baltimore Sun that last night would have been his grandfather's 79th birthday. Michael Ryan, a 20-year Orioles season ticket holder, passed away in 2012, but grandpas know. They alway know.

About the only downside to Mancini's big debut was the Orioles lost 5-2 to the Red Sox. We still suspect after the game Beth had kisses for her son, the kind of tender loving affection usually reserved for the Marlins hitting coach and the team's ace. Moms—and Barry Bonds—just the best, aren't they?

(h/t Cut4 MLB)