Kevin Pillar recorded the 1,000th hit of his Major League career in the Los Angeles Angels' victory over the Texas Rangers on Sunday.
"Baseball is poetic in a way that I'm here in Texas, my family lives here, my parents are here in attendance," Pillar said. "I told them I wasn't in the starting lineup. They still wanted to be here for me to get an opportunity, and to come up in that situation with them here, it means the world to me."
Pillar, 35, has been with the Angels for only about three weeks. It is the ninth big league team over 12 seasons for the outfielder, who signed April 30, the same day the club put Mike Trout on the injured list because of a torn meniscus in his left knee that required surgery.