{"id":673879,"date":"2026-04-12T06:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673879\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:45:19","slug":"diamondbacks-pitcher-brandon-pfaadt-sports-pink-laces-during-start-to-help-gender-reveal-for-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673879\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Pfaadt sports pink laces during start to help gender reveal for brother"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Baseball player Brandon Pfaadt walks on the field, showing his black and gold cleats with pink laces, Image 2 shows Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Pfaadt receives a new ball after giving up a solo home run<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a girl!<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Pfaadt was seen wearing pink shoelaces on the mound during their 4-3 loss to the Phillies on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Though it was a bold uniform choice for shoelaces, this was no ordinary game for the right-hander.<\/p>\n

Pfaadt wore them to deliver a gender reveal for his brother\u2019s unborn child back in Kentucky.<\/p>\n

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Brandon Pfaadt walks off the field wearing his special pink shoelaces for the day during the second inning of the Diamondbacks\u2019 4-3 loss to the Phillies on April 11, 2026, in Philadelphia. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may note that Brandon is wearing pink laces on his cleats for this afternoon\u2019s start,\u201d Arizona television play-by-play man Steve Berthiaume said as Pfaadt took the mound. \u201cThese are not ordinary laces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a special note from Brandon and his younger brother Brett for Brett\u2019s wife, Hannah, and their whole family: \u2018We are pleased to announce that Brandon is wearing specially selected gender-reveal shoelaces. So congratulations Brett and Hannah. It\u2019s a girl!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the game, Pfaadt said he was happy to help with the reveal, and it was \u201cspecial\u201d to be included.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s special for him to ask me that, and for me to be able to do it,\u201d Pfaadt told reporters, according to MLB.com<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m a proud older brother. It\u2019s the first baby in the family, so it\u2019s something to look forward to for the whole family. And we\u2019re just happy for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brandon Pfaadt receives a new ball after giving up a solo home run to Bryce Harper during the third inning of the Diamondbacks\u2019 4-3 loss to the Phillies on April 11, 2026, in Philadelphia. AP<\/p>\n

He added that although he loved the idea when his brother first asked him about it, they had to work out exactly how he would pull it off.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, first he wanted me to use a pink glove,\u201d Pfaadt said. \u201cI said, \u2018I can\u2019t do that.\u2019 Then, pink cleats. I was like, \u2018How about we go shoelaces?\u2019 And so we kind of met in the middle, and it worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pfaadt\u2019s wife found the shoelaces last week during the Diamondbacks\u2019 series against the Mets.<\/p>\n

The shoelaces did not help much with Pfaddt\u2019s performance on the mound, however, as he picked up the loss for Saturday\u2019s game after giving up three earned runs through six innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Baseball player Brandon Pfaadt walks on the field, showing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,654,85471,1207,38,4,144,40,85470,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-673879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-brandon-pfaadt","13":"tag-brother-brett","14":"tag-bryce-harper","15":"tag-diamondbacks","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-philadelphia","18":"tag-phillies","19":"tag-pink-shoelaces","20":"tag-the-mets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116390392141609431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}