{"id":250392,"date":"2025-10-30T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250392\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:08:10","slug":"davis-schneiders-dad-filmed-his-now-famous-game-5-home-run-and-it-couldnt-be-more-pure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250392\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Schneider’s dad filmed his now-famous Game 5 home run and it couldn’t be more pure"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is, perhaps, exactly what one might expect from someone whose social media handle<\/a> is “bballdadd44745.”<\/p>\n

Yet Steve Schneider’s reaction as he filmed his son’s now-famous home run on the first pitch of Wednesday’s Game 5<\/a> of the World Series is so pure that it’s gone viral and been shared by the official MLB X account.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Oh, no! No way!” Schneider shouts in the video as Davis Schneider of the Toronto Blue Jays cracks the ball into the first row in left field.<\/p>\n

“Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!” he continues as his son rounds the bases. “You gotta be kidding me!”<\/p>\n

From there, it’s just incoherent screaming and high fives and hugs, which, honestly: appropriate. Because as MLB.com put it<\/a>, the elder Schneider “just so happened to capture a first-person account of some World Series history.” <\/p>\n

Not only is it rare to hit a home run on the very first pitch<\/a> of a game, but when teammate Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit another one two swings later, Toronto became the first team to begin a World Series game with back-to-back homers. <\/a><\/p>\n

Schneider’s hit also set the tone for the rest of the game, which the Toronto Blue Jays dominated to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-1.<\/p>\n

But what’s captured the heart of fans everywhere is just the sounds of a proud dad.<\/p>\n

“You cannot watch this as a father and not have tears in your eyes,” commented someone on the video shared by MLB’s X account.<\/p>\n

“Seeing a World Series Game 5 leadoff homer through a parent’s eyes is pure baseball magic. Davis Schneider gave his Dad a memory for a lifetime on that first pitch,” wrote someone else. <\/p>\n

“Dad cam hit harder than the ball,” commented another.<\/p>\n

Friday’s Game 6 in Toronto has the potential for another wholesome moment: not only will beloved Canadian children’s singer Raffi be in the stands<\/a>, but he’s (jokingly?) offered to sing the national anthem.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Blue Jays stun in Game 5:\"\"<\/p>\n

Blue Jays stun L.A. 6-1 to take World Series lead<\/p>\n

It took just three pitches from L.A. Dodgers starter Blake Snell for the Toronto Blue Jays to take a 2-0 lead in Game 5 of the World Series with back-to-back home runs from Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. The Jays’ own starter Trey Yesavage struck out 12 and walked no batters in a performance for the history books. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is, perhaps, exactly what one might expect from someone whose social media handle is “bballdadd44745.” Yet Steve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-250392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}