When Rockies’ rookie left fielder Nolan Jones needed to hear an encouraging word and get a reality check, he called his older brother, Peyton,
Nolan Jones of the Colorado Rockies walks to the dugout before the first inning of Colorado’s 5-1 Spring Training win over the the Oakland A’s at Hohokam Stadium in Mesa, Arizona on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. The rookie left fielder needed to wake up, hear an encouraging word and get a reality check. Naturally, he called his brother Peyton, the oldest sibling in an athletically gifted family.
Iowa Heartlanders goalie Peyton Jones looks on during warmups of an ECHL Hockey game at Xtream Arena in Coralville, Iowa in Nov. 2023 Being a kid in the Jones household in Langhorne, Pa., meant sports, fun, intense sibling competition, a few fistfights, and bonds of steel. Sister Liana, 21, a senior at Penn State, is the starting center fielder for the Nittany Lions softball team.
“We said we wanted to name him ‘Chipper,'” Nolan recalled. “We tried, but Mom shut that down quick. She said, ‘Absolutely not.’ “I wanted to get some boxing gloves one Christmas, although I don’t think my parents planned on us hitting each other,” Nolan recalled with a chuckle. “We weren’t trying to hurt each other, it was just another way of competing. At the time we were both wanting to be hockey players, so we practiced our hockey fights and what we were going to have to do on the ice.”By the time they were teenagers, the two brothers were playing hockey in earnest.
“Although hockey and baseball are different sports, for us, it’s kind of the same,” Peyton said. “When you’re up to bat, all eyes are on you, and it’s stressful at times. And as a goalie, all eyes are on me and I’m that last line of defense. If the red light above me goes off, and the siren goes off, everybody knows that I just got scored upon.”At the Jones house, everyone got scored upon. And they heard about it.
Tom and Regina are thrilled and amazed at their children’s athletic prowess. More than that, they are thankful sports continue to be the tie that binds. • Slashed .297/.389/.542 with 22 doubles, four triples, 20 home runs, 62 RBIs and 20 stolen bases in 106 games. Led the team in batting average , OPS , and OPS+ .
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