BELLEVUE, Neb. -- Mike Anderson tried from his front-row seat in right field at TD Ameritrade Park to keep the beach ball from going over the wall.
But little did the 44-year-old Slidell resident know how his accidental bumping of a beach ball onto the field Saturday at the College World Series would begin a chain of events that would cause a social-media craze.
On the first pitch after Florida State right fielder Steven Wells tossed the ball back into the stands with one out in the eighth inning, LSU's Antoine Duplantis drilled a single into right field to begin a bizarre three-error sequence that let Cole Freeman race around from first base for the tying run.