Sawyer Strosnider stepped into the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers’ batter’s box on Wednesday afternoon with his mom, Kandi, in the second row behind home plate, and his dad, Scott, a few hundred feet away in the right-field bleachers.Kandi was recording Sawyer’s at-bat, as she has done since he was young, but when Sawyer blasted his first professional home run, she was too elated to watch where it landed. When Scott called her to say he had caught it, she couldn’t believe him.“I’m like, ’You did not,’” Kandi told The Athletic on Thursday. “I go back to the home video that I’ve just taken, and I look, and sure enough, it’s the man who has the outfit on that my husband has on. I’m like, you did catch that ball!”Scott was also filming the at-bat, and as the ball hurtled toward him in right field, the early 90s Morehead State player knew a play had to be made. He dropped his phone as it was recording to make the catch.His POV video made it onto “SportsCenter” on Thursday night, with the footage showing the phone tumbling to the ground before Scott exclaimed, “That’s my son!”“We don’t have this conversation if I don’t catch that ball,” he said Thursday. “When I saw it coming, I was like, ‘I’m gonna have to catch this baseball now. I’ll get rid of this phone.’”Minor leaguer's first pro HR caught by his dadSawyer, a Milwaukee Brewers 2026 second-round pick out of TCU, said he knew the ball found his dad. As the High-A outfielder rounded third for the first time as a professional, he told the third-base coach as much. The bottom-of-the-seventh shot gave the Timber Rattlers a 3-2 lead over the Lake County Captains en route to a 5-3 win.However serendipitous the moment seemed, it wasn’t fully a coincidence that Scott was there to catch the ball. He felt his son, a left-handed batter, would pull one to right field if he finally saw something straight instead of the off-speed pitches he had been facing.