For a couple of minutes there, the man every baseball broadcaster and reporter wanted to talk to was a 29-year-old employee of a financial firm.
Keith Hartley was just one of 36,000 fans at Wrigley Field for the Cubs-Dodgers game on Tuesday night. Until a wooden bat hit a cowhide ball at just the right angle and propelled him into the spectator hall of fame along with Bongo Lady and Marlins Jersey Guy.
With the Cubs batting in the second inning, Jason Hammel popped up a pitch from Zack Greinke.
The ball flew toward the boundary between the field and the front row on the first-base line.