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It also made him question a serious life decision.</p><p id="h1590683-p2" class="permalinkable">Last Sept. 25, Robinson was a 29-year old Padres rookie who had never played in back-to-back games. After pinch hitting the night before against Arizona, he was in the bullpen in the eighth inning, not expecting to see action, when the bullpen phone rang.</p><p id="h1590683-p3" class="permalinkable">It was Padres manager Bud Black, summoning the September call-up to pinch hit. Robinson jogged across the Petco Park field, grabbed a bat, and stepped into the box against Arizona’s Eury De La Rosa with runners on first and second and nobody out.</p><p id="h1590683-p4" class="permalinkable">“I don’t know what you believe in, but there was something else going on there that night,” Robinson said.</p><p id="h1590683-p5" class="permalinkable">Robinson had spent nine years in the minor leagues with five organizations, toiling in places like Oneonta, N.Y., and Des Moines, Iowa, for this opportunity. But so far he was 0-for-5 with two strikeouts in the majors.</p><p id="h1590683-p6" class="permalinkable">He changed all that on the third pitch.</p><p id="h1590683-p7" class="permalinkable">“High fly ball. Left field. Hit well. That ball is out of here,” said Padres broadcaster Dick Enberg on the Fox Sports San Diego telecast. “That’s the way to break in. Oh my! That’s wonderful.</p><p id="h1590683-p8" class="permalinkable">“Chris Robinson, a lifetime minor leaguer, a hockey player from Canada, loves baseball. He has his first hit, and it’s a home run. Oh my. A three-run shot for Robinson.”</p><p id="h1590683-p9" class="permalinkable">The 6-foot, 220-pound Robinson rounded the bases. A smile burst on his face when he reached third, turned home and saw his teammates and coaches standing and cheering.</p><p id="h1590683-p10" class="permalinkable">“The joy on his face and the joy on the teammates’ faces was so pure,” former Padres catcher Nick Hundley said.</p><p id="h1590683-p11" class="permalinkable">Robinson stayed in and caught the top of the ninth for his first defensive appearance in the major leagues. Fox Sports’ Laura McKeeman did an on-field interview with Robinson after the game, but Hundley interrupted it by dousing Robinson with a cooler of water.</p><p id="h1590683-p12" class="permalinkable">“For him to endure all those years and to see it pay off with major league service time and wearing a big league uniform and then to hit a home run, it was as happy a group that I’ve seen for a player in a long time,” Black said.</p><p id="h1590683-p13" class="permalinkable">Still, Robinson’s triumph came with a twinge of disappointment.</p><p id="h1590683-p14" class="permalinkable">Midnight passed in Dorchester, Ontario, a couple innings before Black summoned Robinson from the bullpen. Robinson’s parents, Don and Kathie Robinson, watched the beginning of the game but had gone to bed before the big hit.</p><p id="h1590683-p15" class="permalinkable">Also missing the moment were Robinson’s wife, Amy, and 1-year old twins, Laine and Griffin, who were at home in Dorchester. While Robinson had family at 14 of the first 19 major league games he was in uniform for, maintaining a life almost 2,500 miles away prevented them from attending them all – and he missed them.</p><p id="h1590683-p16" class="permalinkable">That’s why, a few months earlier, Robinson had made a decision. The baseball life forced him to spend too much time away from his family. 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