Marcus Semien’s home team just got a little bigger this month.
In the midst of the Texas Rangers’ playoff run, the second baseman, 33, welcomed his fourth child with wife Tarah Murrey. Daughter Amelie was born on Thursday, October 12, the athlete said after rejoining his team for the American League Championship Series (ALCS).
Winning the split and securing the win that takes them to the World Series, Semien celebrated in a postgame interview with his three older sons — Eki, 2, Joshua, 5, and Isaiah, 8 — and shared an update on his family’s whirlwind month.
“It’s been a crazy couple of weeks. We finished the last week of the season and I didn’t know if I was going to have a baby or not. I’m on my way. We finished DS and decided to push and it was a crazy week, like I said,” he said. while thinking about the match.
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“We signed up for it,” Semien said in another interview. “When you play baseball this late in the year, I mean, these are the most meaningful games of my life. And those are the most meaningful games for our family. So it’s hard that I can’t be there, but Tarah is a competitor. She’s ready for me to have a good run here, get this win and bring her back to Texas.”
Semien revealed the family’s baby news in a media update a few days after his daughter’s birth.
“All these games mean a lot and it’s hard, but I managed to be there and spend two days in the hospital and get home and on the flight. Everyone is fine and everyone is healthy and happy and we are all blessed,” he said.
“I think every father here who was in the hospital at the time, you know, you’re just worried about your wife. You get a few hours of sleep here and there, but you make sure your loved ones are okay.”
Semien and Murrey are high school sweethearts who first met in St. Mary’s, and continued their romance as student athletes at UC Berkeley, where Murrey was a volleyball player. They tied the knot in January 2012.
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