Astros' A.J. Hinch rooting for Kirk Gibson in battle with Parkinson's

“Knowing Gibby, he will fight the fight as hard and as good as anybody,” Hinch said. “But really sad, sad day to hear of the struggles that are ahead for him. I reached out to him via text and just sent him my wishes. I didn’t expect to hear back from him and I haven’t. I know a ton of baseball people are doing the same. “But he’ll be in our thoughts and prayers. Certainly there are a lot of people around the world that suffer from this, and you hate to see anybody go through it. … Just takes you back and is a really, really heart wrenching situation.”

“He’ll fight. He will fight,” Hinch said. “Whatever that entails, he will fight.”