This story behind the birthday balloon on Dodgers Opening Day will make you cry

This story behind the birthday balloon on Dodgers Opening Day will make you cry.

Fans who tuned into the Los Angeles Dodgers Opening Day game against the San Francisco Giants probably laughed it off when they saw a helium mylar birthday balloon slowly sink back down to earth right in the middle of the field. What none of us knew what the incredibly moving story behind that balloon.

Celebrity hairstylist Chaz Dean shared a story about the origin of that balloon.

According to Dean, a balloon was accidentally released from a collection and he resigned that it was a symbol in memory of his late mother Millie who had died just days before the game. He says he’d been asking her for a sign to show she was still with him in the metaphorical sense. He says he was also worried about the balloon landing in the ocean and harming the environment but resigned to the fact that he couldn’t retrieve the balloon anyways.

He says the balloon went airborne around 1:15 in the afternoon. Later that evening he turned on the TV to help him sleep and he heard the local broadcast team talking about a balloon that had landed in the game that night.

“If that wasn’t a sign from my birth mother, naming the balloon in honor of Millie, landing at Dodger Stadium,” he said to NBC Los Angeles.

The Dodgers won that game against their division rivals but that’s peanuts compared to what Dean won — piece of mind.