CHICAGO -- Gary Sanchez's daughter, Sarah, was only seconds old when the folks in the delivery room let him cut the umbilical cord. Then, with some relief, he laid the infant across the chest of his wife, Sahaira Sanchez.
Sarah was so tiny, so little, that he was initially afraid to carry her anywhere, he explained through an interpreter at Wrigley Field on Saturday. The catcher is 6-foot-2, 230 pounds and built like a Brink's armored truck, but the weight of carrying his baby was way too heavy for him in those first days.
Not long after that, Sanchez, then 22 years old, returned to the Trenton Thunder to resume his season in Double-A.