The Briscoe family has welcomed a new child into the world.
Mark Briscoe announced the birth of Matthew Jamin Pugh on Wednesday. The newborn's middle name is a tribute to Mark's late brother Jay Briscoe, real name Jamin Pugh, who passed away in a car accident on January 17, 2023.
Briscoe and his wife now have eight children together.
Introducing…
— Mark Briscoe (@SussexCoChicken) April 24, 2024
MATTHEW JAMIN PUGH !!!!#GodIsGood pic.twitter.com/Ezogsr5wk2
Briscoe confirmed in an interview with Sports Illustrated last November that he and his wife were expecting another child. He noted that they almost have a full baseball team of kids now.
“That’s right, we have baby number eight on the way,” Briscoe said. “It’s almost a whole baseball team.”
It's the fifth boy the couple has welcomed into the world after their first three children were all girls.
“For the first seven, it was like a World Series that went down to Game 7,” said Briscoe. “It went girl, girl, girl, and I thought it was going to be a four-game sweep. Then we had boy, boy, boy. So it came down to a Game 7, and it was a boy. The boys took it. My wife is amazing. We have a gaggle of kids.”
The name Jamin Pugh has also been honored throughout Sussex County, Delaware since Jay Briscoe's passing. A dedication ceremony was held at Laurel High School football last October where they renamed a locker room as the Jamin Pugh Locker Room.
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