All Eyes Up. Chris McCready watches his salvo go deep into the night in the ninth inning.

Chris McCready’s Magical Moment

Chris McCready couldn’t truly see, feel or hear anything as he floated triumphantly around the bases on Friday – all he knew was that he wasn’t making that 360-foot trip alone.

“I had an angel on my shoulder,” McCready said.

That “angel” was his mother, Susan, who had recently passed away at the age of 59 due to ovarian cancer.

McCready, a backup outfielder for the University of San Diego, lost his mom just eight days prior to Friday’s game against Loyola Marymount.

The LMU game represented his first at-bat[…]