PHOENIX — rookie became one of the youngest players in franchise history to produce a four-hit game Friday, when his cell phone kept buzzing atop the shelf in his locker. It was a message from little brother, Ethan, just telling him just proud he was of him. “I didn’t even wait for the game to end," 17-year-old Ethan Holliday told USA TODAY Sports.
"That was just so cool to see that. I mean, my brother and I were inseparable growing up. We’re best friends.
I talk to him four or five days a week. I don’t think that will ever change." While 20-year-old Jackson Holliday, baseball’s No.
1 draft pick in 2022, became the youngest Orioles player since Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson in 1957 to record four hits, his little brother was 2,200 miles away in Phoenix for the Perfect Game All-American Classic. It was the latest showcase for Ethan Holliday in his dizzying summer, going everywhere from Panama to North Carolina to Virginia to Florida to Texas to San Diego to Atlanta to Kansas City to Boston. The Holliday family, with former seven-time All-Star and World Series champion Matt Holliday and wife, Leslee, leading the way, have spent virtually the summer traveling with 14-year-old daughter Gracyn and 11-year-old son Reed watching, well, a whole lot of baseball between Jackson and Ethan.
“It’s been a pretty hectic travel schedule," Matt Holliday says. “But hey, it’s all good. We love to watch baseball.
" It’s a baseball family, through and through. Matt’s dad, T.