The camera is ready. It’s always ready. It doesn’t matter that the scene is essentially the same. Time after time. Year after year.

The bullpen door swings open. The guitar arrives first. The bass strolls in. The beat blasts into your veins. The flow follows.

Michael King jogs through the outfield grass, wearing the pinstripes that he and his sister loved growing up, representing the team his mother cherished long before he was born.

“It has been years, and every time we take video of it, even in spring training,” King’s mother, Michele, said. “I never want this to get old. I never want to get used to it where it’s ho-hum. I know that won’t happen because they seat us all together, all the parents in the family section. Sharon Cole and Patty Judge and Mike Stanton are just as starry-eyed and proud of their boys who’ve made it to the top as I am of mine. You can just tell it never has gotten old for them, so why would it for us?”