Junior Caminero's father drives a truck in Santo Domingo. When Cleveland signed him out of the Dominican Republic, three days before his sixteenth birthday, they gave him eighty seven thousand five hundred dollars. The kids scouts are sure about get millions. Tonight he hit the home run that is sending Tampa Bay to the World Series. Here is the whole thing. His father is named Juan. His mother Yeudy worked in physical therapy. The family lives about ten minutes from the big ballpark in Santo Domingo and they still do. He started playing at five years old and never really stopped loving it. "I've always loved the game." He played basketball too, right up until his mother told him to quit so he would not get himself hurt. He was sixteen. And here is how much this kid loved baseball. When he was a boy his parents had another baby, and he told them what to name it. So his little brother is named Girardi, after a man who was managing in the big leagues at the time. Somebody asked him later whether he had really picked it. "I told them to." Now here is the part that is easy to miss on a night like this. Nobody thought he was going to be this. He was small, and he has said so himself in plain words. "I was actually a late bloomer." A scout named Amiro Santana signed him anyway, for that money, and nobody wrote a word about it at the time. MLB.com is where he told all of that, back when he was still a prospect. Then he filled out. Last season he hit 45 home runs, one short of the most any player has ever hit in a season for this franchise. He made the final of the Home Run Derby. He went home that winter and hit the go ahead home run in the deciding game of the Dominican league final. He has a wife, Francesca, and a daughter named Valentina who was born last fall. He is still only twenty three years old. Here is what he says about having any of it in the first place. "I think everyone in this world has a gift from God." Now the honest part. He is not an underdog anymore and it would be dishonest to sell him as one. He is one of the best young hitters alive and everybody in baseball knows it. Cleveland did trade him here, and that story is on every broadcast in America tonight, so there is no need for us to tell it again. And eighty seven thousand five hundred dollars is a lot of money to most families, including his. But a truck driver's son from Santo Domingo loved this sport so much as a child that he made his parents name the baby after a manager he had watched on television. And tonight that kid hit a baseball out of the yard and sent his team to the World Series.