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.
"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' generosity, 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 more than $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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From Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com:
"Good thing fan wasn't at Yankee Stadium, he'd have had to take out a second mortgage."
Online ban
Fortnite has become so popular that it is reportedly leading to addiction, interfering with people's marriages and affecting professional lives.
At least one professional hockey team thinks it is a big enough distraction that it has banned its players from playing the online game.
According to ESPN, management for the Vancouver Canucks have banned their players from playing the game during the upcoming season. The ban comes following the team's lackluster 2017-18 season when it finished second to last in the Western Conference.
Some players in the league think that Vancouver is just scapegoating the game.
"I think they just needed something to blame after last year," said Patrik Laine, star winger for the Winnipeg Jets. Even so, Laine said that his team made a similar arrangement this season. "We kind of made a deal if we're playing like that, we can give up our PlayStations, so we're not going to take them on the road. But I don't think that's going to happen."
Sports quiz
What team drafted George Springer in the 48th round of the 2008 Major League Draft?
Answer
The Minnesota Twins
Sports on 10/07/2018