Mike Cook’s daughter will never believe him. That’s the sad part.

Ten years from now, Carter Cook will be rolling her eyes. “Suuure dad,” she’ll say, all attitude and preteen sarcasm, “you were the only guy on the team to hit a home run. A three-run home run. On the field where you proposed to mom. With a pink bat. And Jay Crawford from TV was pitching.”

“Well, actually he was pitching for our team, but—“

“Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.” Maybe she’ll make a funny face to make Uncle Ken laugh. She’ll never believe him.

But, as the kids like to say on Twitter, THAT JUST HAPPENED.

Cook blasted his first home run of the season—Elmer’s first as well—with a rarely-used (cheap, poorly built, downright gaudy, embarrassing) pink Louisville Slugger, a bat whose meager results prior included one soft (blooping, cheap, unfortunate, embarrassing) hit in two seasons.

And damn if he didn’t crush it.

Cook’s 360-foot celebration of breast cancer awareness capped off an all-around explosive day for the Silver Bullets (I’m trying it out as a nickname—correctly pluralizing Elmer’s a dozen times is too much of a chore) who tacked 12 runs from 17 hits on the Knights, beginning with a four-run first inning. Leadoff hitter Russell LaFleur maintained his recent sizzle with two doubles and two stolen bases on the night. Nick Dinino and Phil Gendron both contributed with somewhat decent days at the plate, 3 hits a piece.

It made for a simple evening for Crawford, who continued his impressive debut campaign with another complete-game W. He held Bristol at bay with a heavy fastball that produced consistent ground-ball outs, locating to both sides of the plate and running it in and out. His record now stands at 3-0 with a 1.69 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, and 19 K’s in 29 innings pitched.

But even with the outcome perhaps already decided, the story of the game became Cook’s unlikely (superfluous, inconsequential, utterly surprising, but certainly not cheap) home run. Uncle Ken will have to assure Carter the ball went out. That he drilled it. That he led the team in homers.

You can believe that.