ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — There’s a Lowe household reunion this weekend in Texas, the place the mom of massive league brothers Nathaniel and Josh is getting to observe her sons play towards one another for the primary time since being identified with mind most cancers final yr.
Wendy Lowe was unable to attend at Tampa Bay final October when Nathaniel Lowe and the Texas Rangers performed towards youthful brother Josh and the Rays in an AL Wild Card playoff sequence. She was going via chemotherapy and different medical appointments on the time.
The household was in a position to be collectively when the groups met for a sequence in Florida the primary week of this season, however neither brother performed then as a result of each had been on the injured checklist with indirect strains.
“It’s been superior to see her perseverance via every little thing, to proceed combating each single day,” Josh Lowe mentioned earlier than the sequence opener Friday. “I undoubtedly suppose one of many foremost causes she does it’s due to my brother and I.”
Josh mentioned he and his brother had their mother and father, their maternal grandmother, some cousins and different prolonged household in Texas for the sequence that opened Friday night time with a 3-0 win by the World Sequence champion Rangers. All of them deliberate to get collectively after Saturday’s sport on the the brand new home Nathaniel moved into through the offseason.
“They knew they had been coming right here, particularly due to the truth that we didn’t play the primary time,” Josh mentioned. “All people decided to return right here and spend a while collectively.”
The Lowe brothers started their professional careers collectively within the Tampa Bay minor league system. Nathaniel, who turns 29 on Sunday, was traded to Texas in December 2020, so that they first shared a serious league area in that sequence final season.
Their mother and father attended that sequence in Florida in June of final season. Wendy wore a customized, break up baseball jersey — one half a white Rays uniform, the opposite in Rangers blue, with “Lowe” written throughout the again.
Within the sequence opener Friday night time, Nathaniel had an RBI single within the third inning that put Texas up 3-0. After putting out his first two at-bats because the Rays’ designated hitter, 26-year-old Josh singled within the sixth inning after which was being held on by his brother at first base.
On the shelf in Josh’s locker within the visiting clubhouse earlier than the sequence had been two bobbleheads commemorating the Gold Glove Nathaniel received final season. The bobbleheads had been giveaways at a Rangers sport on Tuesday night time, when he hit two residence runs.
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