Triston Casas shares how his dad reacted to Red Sox slugger revealing now-viral Father's Day memory

Triston Casas is making clear that the fond memories he has with his dad on the baseball field don’t always finish with his father ending up incarcerated.

The Boston Red Sox first baseman did an interview from the dugout on Sunday Night Baseball on Father’s Day, and was asked about any memories with his dad he cared to share. Casas ended up regaling viewers with a story that concluded with his dad getting taken away from the field in a cop car. Casas – who recalled being six- or seven-years-old at the time – got out on a play and, like many kids that age, returned to the dugout crying.

That reaction drew the ire of his dad.

“My dad, being the dad that he is, trying to teach me the lessons that he did in his own special way, came into the dugout, grabbed me by my shirt, dragged me to the line, and Looney Tunes style kicked me out onto the field,” Casas said.

A friend's mom ended up calling child services, and his dad was arrested at the field and spent the night in jail. Casas said the experience was a “super valuable” lesson to him about a responsibility to those around him to give his best effort, but it wasn’t exactly the warm and fuzzy type of story you would expect to hear.

Casas told Rob Bradford on Audacy’s Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast what his dad thought of the story getting national light.

“My dad’s reaction was ‘That was the story? You couldn’t have told any other one?’ Obviously, we’ve had a lot of good ones, but that one, it resonates with me a lot,” Casas said. “It wasn’t just about what I said or that I aired him out or whatever, it was the lesson that I learned in that. There was something that I took away from that that’s stuck with me to this day that I think about a lot.

“It’s true," Casas continued. "Baseball players, even in life, whatever, you don’t want to go to work or you don’t want to go out there just because of how you’re feeling. Regardless of how you’re feeling, I have a responsibility to everybody about certain things, and I have obligations to come finish those.

“He wasn’t upset about it. That was his reaction, ‘That was the story?’ Because we have so many stories, me and him.”

Then, Casas decided to share a different story of a day at the field with his dad that had a more favorable ending.

Casas and his dad tried to get into a batting cage the morning of a tournament, but were told all the cages were booked up. So, his dad decided to improvise.

“He pulls me to the side and we go and wait under a tree, and he starts pulling these little seeds off a tree," Casas recalled. "He’s like ‘Go stand over there, this is how we’re going to hit today.’ So, that was my warmup for the day, we just started hitting those beads.

“That day in the two games I think I had three home runs and we won the championship. He looks back on that day (says) 'Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.' Right there, that’s what he told me.”