Former MLB star Josh Hamilton made an appearance on Fox News’s “Will Cain Country,” where he reflected on his game 6 World Series home run in 2011 while playing for the Texas Rangers. The hit, Hamilton said, was divinely ordained. “The Holy Spirit told me on deck I was about to hit a home run because it’s … I hadn’t hit one in a while, and I was like, ‘OK.’ First pitch, whack,” he said. The game was against the St. Louis Cardinals, with the home run giving the Rangers the lead at 9-7 in the 10^th inning. The Cardinals, however, would come back and win the game 10-9, ultimately winning the series in 7 games.

Hamilton has previously discussed the divine moment, writing about it in The Player’s Tribune just before he was inducted into the Rangers’ Hall of Fame. “I’m telling you, out of nowhere… I hear the Holy Spirit talking to me. This is the honest truth… I’m standing there, getting ready to bat, and I heat it clear as day. ‘You’re about to hit a homer right now, son.’ And I’m like. ‘Huh… ok,’” Hamilton wrote at the time.  He would later hear the Holy Spirit again in 2017, telling him it was okay to move on from his baseball career. “I hear the voice again, and He says, ‘You know you’re scared.’ Just out of nowhere He says that,” he wrote. “And so I’m caught off guard by it, but I start talking back. ‘Scared of what?’ I say… this isn’t something I say in my head or whatever… I’m saying them out loud, out there on my ranch with the axe in my hand,” Hamilton wrote. “Then He speaks to me another time. ‘Of being… done.'” Hamilton would retire from baseball after that conversation.

Hamilton didn’t always have a relationship with God. In his early career, he was sidelined for drug use. While high on drugs, his grandmother reached out to him and encouraged him to do better. “And for the first time, all the things that my parents had told me, that [my grandma] had told me, — ‘Hey we love you. You’re better than this. You can do great things. We believe in you.’ — all these things that I’ve been told, and I was actually high when she was talking to me, I feel like the Lord just cleared my head and allowed me to actually hear it,” he recalled. Hamilton began turning to Bible reading, though he still struggled in his personal life, including pleading guilty to unlawful restraint in 2019 after accusations that he had physically assaulted his eldest daughter. Hamilton has claimed he has proof of his innocence but chose to plead guilty rather than drag his family through court.