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29 BAY AREA NEWS GROUP PLAY BALL THE GIANTS Brandon'soldestsister,Amy, followed him to UCLA to play softball and started dating future Pit tsbu rg h Pir at es No .1 over all pick Gerrit Cole. They got married in the offseason. Ryan Vogelsong was there and everything. Lynn admits it's not easy to watch her son step in the batter's box against her son-in-law. He's 2 for 12 against him, by the way. The 2014 N.L. Wild Card Game at Pittsburgh, which Brandon helped to win with that aforementioned grand slam, would've been really awkward if it had come against her daughter's betrothed. "We love keeping track of Ger - rit, and I want him to do well, but just not against Brandon," Lynn said. "Maybe … if he's got a no-hit- ter going, then OK, we'll give him that game." NOTEVERYONELOVESTHAT fantastic hair. "I just want him to cut it," Lynn said. "The only grief I've ever got- ten from him is about his hair. It's the only thing that makes me go, 'Brandon, what are you doing?'" It spills out the back of his cap. It gets pulled back into a barista's man bun off the field. He intro - duced Johnny B. Mode gel to the clubhouse, and now half his team- mates are obsessed with it. But once he's done applying product, he's gliding up the middle to take away a base hit or turning the smooth pivot on a double play or knocking a double off the arcade. Watching it never gets old for Lynn Crawford. But you knew that. "The contract, the best thing about it for me, was the no-trade clause," said the most proud base - ball mom in the Bay Area. "It's awesome. He'll be here for at least a great deal of his career. He's so close to us. We didn't even have to change our colors. How lucky we are. "Does it ever get old? Absolute - ly not. We are so blessed, so super blessed." ABAGGARLY@BAYAREANEWSGROUP.COM