Ask, and you shall receive.
As the Mariners were building up a lead in their 8-4 win against the Tigers in Game 3 of the ALDS at Comerica Park on Tuesday, one fan in particular stood out above the bullpens in left field, among a sea of navy and orange.
Jameson Turner -- who was born in Longview, Wash., and now lives in Las Vegas -- was wearing a bright teal shirt, with a simple message ("DUMP HERE"), with a massive No. 61 in the middle.
Then Cal Raleigh -- Big Dumper himself, who clouted 60 homers in the regular season -- stepped up in the top of the ninth.
“I waved at him when he came up,” Turner said. “Maybe he saw me.”
Raleigh, who had already driven in a run with a single in top of the fourth, caught up to a 1-1 sinker at the top rail from Brenan Hanifee and drilled it the other way, 391 feet to left-center.
“I was just trying to get the guy over and was able to get extended a little more than I thought,” Raleigh said. “He’s a tough sinkerballer, he’s got good stuff. I was just trying to get him over, small thoughts, and I was able to get it in the air.”
It flew into the bullpen and took the perfect bounce -- straight to the fan who’d asked for it.
The play couldn’t have gone any more perfectly for Turner, who had also been in attendance at T-Mobile Park for the Mariners’ regular-season finale against the Dodgers. That night he sat in the right-field bleachers, since 38 of Raleigh’s 60 regular-season dingers came from the left side.
Coming to Detroit on his day off from work, though, Turner couldn’t find any available seats near the railing in right. So he took his chance in left-center.
“When I found the first row there, right behind the bullpen, I’m like, ‘OK, maybe he’ll knock a miracle one back there,” he said.
That’s exactly what happened, and Turner was more than prepared. As soon as he collected Raleigh’s homer off a bounce in the Mariners' bullpen, he had a change of clothes ready.
This new shirt? "DUMP HERE -- No. 62."
That elevated Turner from a fan who caught the break of a lifetime to an instant celebrity, with just three outs until the end of the game. Mariners baseball communications found him at his seat -- he wasn’t exactly hard to locate, after all -- and took him to the lower levels of Comerica Park, by the Mariners’ clubhouse.
Within minutes of the game ending, he was speaking to the media. And, of course, he got to meet Big Dumper himself, with Raleigh giving him a signed bat.
Now, the two obvious questions remain:
Does Turner have a ticket to Wednesday's Game 4, when the Mariners could advance to the ALCS for the first time since 2001?
And does he have another shirt?
“I hadn’t considered that,” Turner said. “I wasn’t going to go to tomorrow’s game, but I might have to change my plans.”