The moment carried extra meaning for Scout. A few years earlier, he claims he challenged Astros third baseman Alex Bregman to the same game \u2014 and lost.<\/p>\n
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Spring training often gives fans rare access to Major League players. For 12-year-old Scout Garner, it delivered something even more memorable: a bat from Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a.<\/p>\n
Like many young fans, Scout spent his day near the fences at the Astros\u2019 spring training complex, hoping for an autograph or brief interaction with a player. Instead, he walked away with one of Pe\u00f1a\u2019s bats after challenging the shortstop to a game of rock, paper, scissors.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u2018Do you want to play rock, paper, scissors for a bat?\u2019 And he said, \u2018How about this? If I win, then I don’t have to give you anything. I won’t sign anything at all.\u2019 And I said, \u2018OK, but if I win, I get one of your bats,\u2019 and he said, \u2018Deal.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Scout won the game. Pe\u00f1a later followed through on his promise, walking along a pathway and handing him the bat.<\/p>\n
The moment carried extra meaning for Scout. A few years earlier, he claims he challenged Astros third baseman Alex Bregman to the same game \u2014 and lost.<\/p>\n
This time, he was determined not to leave empty-handed.<\/p>\n
Scout said the All-Star shortstop suggested double-or-nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m like, \u2018No, you can’t take it back,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The moment carried extra meaning for Scout. A few years earlier, he claims he challenged Astros third baseman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-477876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}