6:02 pm | October 5, 2018 | Go to Source | Author:
A Houston Astros fan bought “about $500” worth of beer for those sitting around him after predicting George Springer would homer Friday in Game 1 of the American League Division Series.
“I just love my team, man,” Eddie Flores told the Houston Chronicle. “I knew Springer was going to hit one, and I wanted everyone to know it. I called it.”
Flores told the fans around him in Section 103 at Minute Maid Park that he would buy everyone a beer if Springer went deep to lead off the fifth inning.
Sure enough, Springer connected on a 3-2 pitch to left, not too far from where Flores and his new best friends burst into cheers — and not just for the Astros’ 3-0 lead.
“If @georgespringer hits a homerun, I’m buying everyone in the section a beer!” Springer hits a homerun. He buys us all beer. Heroes don’t always wear capes. @astros #crawfordbox pic.twitter.com/Qvg7p9LNkp
— Charles Adams (@bigangrylaw) October 5, 2018
“I mean, I was more excited about the home run, but the beer added a little,” fan Charles Adams, whose tweet about the incident drew initial attention to Flores’ philanthropy, told ABC 13. “I mean, our section went bananas.”
Flores bought a beer for everyone who wanted it in the seven rows around him at a cost of over $300, the Chronicle reported.
But by then Jose Altuve had made it back-to-back home runs for the home team, and Flores reached into his wallet again.
“We bought beer for seven rows straight,” Flores told ABC 13. “Then, it was back-to-back, so I bought another seven rows worth of beer.”
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