Bethany Haynes was looking for any way to calm down her 1-year-old daughter Harper during Monday’s Iowa Cubs game at Principal Park. Haynes tried walking her around the park, giving her snacks and bouncing her up and down. But nothing worked.

Then as the ninth inning of the game approached, Haynes got some help from an unexpected bystander: Iowa Cubs relief pitcher Randy Rosario. Rosario, who was in the team’s bullpen along the left field line, noticed Haynes’ daughter, who was sitting behind the relief pitchers, experiencing a meltdown of sorts.

“He turned around and said, ‘What’s wrong with her, why is she crying like that,’” Haynes recalled. “So, I jokingly said, ‘because she wants to sit on the field’ with him. So, he just extended his arms and was like, ‘Bring her over here.’”

That’s the story behind how a 1-year-old girl ended up in the Iowa Cubs bullpen for a few minutes during the team’s regular season finale earlier this week. For many fans, the highlight of the game was Iowa finishing off the regular season with a win before the Pacific Coast League playoffs. But for Haynes and her family, the most exciting part of the day came from a random interaction with Rosario.

Rosario, a left-handed reliever who has bounced up and down between the Chicago Cubs and Iowa Cubs this season, has become a fan favorite with his bubbly personality. Haynes, along with her boyfriend, son and daughter, got an up-close look at it when they decided to come to make the nearly two-hour trek from Batavia to Des Moines for Sunday’s game.

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They ended up with seats directly behind Iowa’s bullpen. But the trip, along with a long weekend, took a toll on Harper who was getting fussy at the end of the game. Throughout the game, she had caught the attention of Rosario who kept looking over to wave and smile at her. So, before the ninth inning began, he even brought her into the bullpen for a few minutes to hang out with some of his teammates.

“As soon as he took her, she started smiling and laughing and pointing toward the field,” Haynes said.

Haynes' boyfriend, Michael Youngblut, snapped some photos of the exchange and tweeted them, writing to Rosario that he had a fan for life. Rosario noticed the tweet.

That wasn’t the end of it. Later in the inning, when a foul ball came down the line, Rosario got the ball tossed to him. He then walked it over and hand delivered it to Harper.

“That was kind of the icing on the cake,” Haynes said.

Rosario even waited for them after the game to say goodbye before heading to the clubhouse. The special encounter created Randy Rosario fans for life. Haynes said she and Youngblut plan to go to Friday’s PCL playoff game at Principal Park. She even looked into buying Rosario jerseys online.

“I thought it was awesome,” she said of the game.