SEATTLE — Moral of the story is, nice guys finish with a front-row seat.

Glenn Mutti-Driscoll, sitting in the right place at the right time, reached out his right hand and caught Cal Raleigh’s historic 60th home run ball Wednesday night in Section 108 of the right-field bleachers at T-Mobile Park.

What caught everyone else’s attention was what Mutti-Driscoll did next.

“The ball was ricocheting around; it went off a few people’s hands and I grabbed it,” Mutti-Driscoll said in an interview Thursday afternoon. “I was standing with it for 15 or 20 seconds and there was a kid in front of me and just …”

Mutti-Driscoll then motioned with his right hand as if handing a ball off to someone.

“The whole thing was surreal. It just was happening so fast,” he said. “And standing there with it and I guess looking down at the kid, and he deserves it more than me.”

Fans sitting around Mutti-Driscoll took pictures and videos, recognizing his generous gesture. This wasn’t just any baseball to give away, though: It was No. 60, a feat few players in history have achieved.

One fan sitting nearby posted on social media a blurry picture of Mutti-Driscoll, unidentified, with the description: “This is the man that caught Cal Raleigh’s 60th home run! He gave it to a kid who got swept away by the (M)ariners team employees. What a gem and a Seattle legend.”

By Thursday afternoon, that post had more than 5 million views.

Mariners team officials saw that post and asked for the public’s help in identifying Mutti-Driscoll, an environmental consultant who attended Wednesday’s game with coworkers.

By Thursday afternoon, Adam Gresch, the team’s senior manager of communications, tracked down Mutti-Driscoll and extended an invitation for him and his family to return for Thursday’s game — offering front-row seats near the home dugout.

Mutti-Driscoll and his wife, Catherine, and their sons Ethan, 14, and Aiden, 10, dropped their Thursday-night plans — skipping curriculum night at Aiden’s school — and found themselves standing in front of the Mariners dugout about 90 minutes before first pitch.

It was there where they got to meet Raleigh, who emerged from the clubhouse with one of his Louisville Slugger bats to present to Mutti-Driscoll as a gift. “Glenn, thanks for being a good guy & nice catch,” Raleigh inscribed on the bat.

“First time meeting a superstar,” Mutti-Driscoll said.

Ethan and Aiden each got their own baseball with Raleigh’s autograph, and the family posed for pictures with Raleigh on the edge of the field.

Mutti-Driscoll’s generosity stands in stark contrast to an incident during a Phillies-Marlins game earlier this month in Miami, where a man who had retrieved a home-run ball and gave it to his son was aggressively badgered by a woman (later dubbed “Phillies Karen”) into giving the ball to her.

The Marlins later gave the boy a grab bag of memorabilia.

On Wednesday night, the young fan to whom Mutti-Driscoll gave away No. 60 traded the ball back to the Mariners for a bat from Raleigh.

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