There are no assists in baseball, but John Bedzinski and Mark Beauchamp certainly aided in the Tigers' victory Tuesday night.
Tony Paul of The Detroit News found the pair after their 15 seconds of fame during the seventh inning of the game that prolonged Detroit's season.
Bedzinski, "the longtime Tigers season-ticket holder was in the right place at the right time — at least, from every single Tiger’s perspective — as the fan who might’ve just helped out the home team in a big, big way, reaching over the railing to get a hand on Victor Martinez’s game-tying, leadoff home run in the seventh inning of Game 4 on Tuesday night," Paul writes.
“It was coming at me and I didn’t know if it had enough (distance),” said Bendzinski, of Macomb. “I didn’t really want to reach over. Next thing you know, I’m switching hands with my beer and it hits me right in the hands.”
Said Beauchamp:
"The ball was coming out and we had to go with it. We were above the yellow, that’s all we knew.”
