Mookie Betts shares wild story of how fan named baby after him

Mookie Betts has one of the most recognizable names in baseball. Thanks to a mammoth home run that he hit earlier this month, the Los Angeles Dodgers star now shares his name with a newborn baby girl.

On Tuesday, Betts uploaded a video on Twitter to share a story that sounded like it came straight out of a Dodgers fan fiction forum. The former MVP detailed his encounter with a Dodgers fan named Giuseppe Mancuso, who was sitting near the on-deck circle during an Aug. 2 home game against the Oakland Athletics.

“Back a couple of weeks ago, I was on deck and this guy started talking to me. He said, Mook, if you hit a home run, I’ll name my daughter, her middle name, Mookie.’ And I heard this and I laughed. And he said he was serious,” said Betts in the video.

Despite Betts imploring Mancuso not to do it, the fan remained adamant that he would name his daughter “Mookie” pending a home run. As fate would have it, Betts hit the farthest home run of his Dodgers career — a 436-foot moon shot to left field — in that very at-bat. Betts gave Mancuso a fist bump right after rounding the bases.