SAN FRANCISCO A lifelong San Francisco fan had a piece of team history in his hands Thursday night: the home run ball that sent the Giants to the WorldSeries.Then he gave it back.MORE: | Frank Burke, who owns a transmi sion repair busine s in Oakdale, that he wanted the hitter, Travis Ishikawa Kenneth Murray Jr. Jersey , to have the ball."Ishikawa is the guy who hit the ball," Burke said. "I'm just the lucky guy who caught it."Your browser does not support iframes.So after having it authenticated by a Joey Bosa Jersey Giants official and learning Ishikawa wanted it back, Burke went down to the clubhouse area and handed it over. Ishikawa gave him a signed bat in return.Burke said he had asked for WorldSeries tickets, but was told that might not be po sible."So I said, 'All right.' I was going to give the ball back either Tristan Vizcaino Jersey way," he said.After doing a media interview the next morning, he got a call from the Giants. Burke now has four tickets to Game 3 of the WorldSeries at San Francisco's AT&T Park on Friday night. It will be the Giants' first home game against the Royals.Burke was at Thursday's game with his friend, Greg Leutza, who is battling cancer. Burke wanted to do something special for Leutza and went Kellen Winslow Jersey searching for tickets after the Giants won the NLDS, he told another newspaper, .Ishikawa's drive came their way as they sat above the stadium's right field wall in the ninth inning with two Giants on base."My main thought was Ty Long Jersey to keep it in front of me and don't let it fall to the field," Burke told the Modesto paper.The ball went off his left hand, but he was able to corral it. Burke posed triumphantly with the ball for photos and said he gave other fans a chance to touch it as well.