Boston red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino along with mascot Wally the Green Monster show 13-year-old heart transplant recipient Andrew Madden around Fenway Park before Game 2 of the World Series on Thursday in Boston.

Boston ? Andrew Madden sat between Red Sox president Larry Lucchino and Wally the Green Monster in Boston’s dugout, and when the bullpen phone rang, he didn’t hesitate to pick it up.

Not bad for a 13-year-old from Odessa, Texas, who has spent more than two months at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas waiting for, receiving and recovering from a heart transplant – even if the bullpen line was dead.

“It’s amazing. This park is so huge. It’s awesome,” he said. “I never thought any of this would be possible.”

Andrew had used Boston’s postseason run to help keep his mind off how sick he was, and when the Red Sox found out how devoted he – and his heart surgeon – were to the team, they helped get the pair and Andrew’s mother to Game 2 of the World Series against the Colorado Rockies.

On Thursday morning, they flew on a plane provided through the nonprofit Grace Flight of America to Boston to watch the game in a Fenway suite, so Andrew could keep out of the cool night air.

“I just wanted to go to Fenway Park, just for once, but a World Series game, that’s just a once-in-a-lifetime thing, for sure,” he said.

It wasn’t until they arrived that Lucchino offered another surprise: Andrew, whose favorite position to play is pitcher, would throw out the game’s first pitch.

“He’s been practicing, just in case,” his mother, Lauri Wemmer, said.