Francisco Lindor and his wife Katia have been everywhere in the starting of Tuesday’s New York Mets sport.
As a part of the Mets’ Hispanic Heritage Night, the membership had Katia, a classically educated violinist, carry out the national anthem on her violin. Holding their son Koa and standing with daughters Kalina and Amapola, Francisco could not have seemed extra proud.
Francisco had his personal pregame second when he was acknowledged because the Mets’ 2025 nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award, which acknowledges the participant who “best represents the game of Baseball through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions, both on and off the field.”
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As a part of the festivities, Lindor donned the No. 21 jersey quantity in honor of Clemente, a fellow Puerto Rican. In the second inning, he lived as much as the legend with a solo homer to push his staff’s result in 6-1.
This time, it was Katia’s flip to have fun with the youngsters.
As Francisco told the New York Post in 2022, Katia nonetheless practices the violin each time she will discover an opportunity:
“She doesn’t do it like she was back in the day when she was doing four to five hours a day … we have the baby now, but she still does two hours whenever she gets the time,” he stated.
The Lindors first linked when Francisco reached out to Katia on Instagram and obtained married in 2021, which was the identical yr Francisco joined the Mets through a commerce from the Cleveland Guardians. With a 10-year contract in hand, the pair determine to be in New York for the foreseeable future.