Summee, now a security officer for the Reds, responded to an emergency call to Section 143 at Great American Ball Park during the seventh inning. A man had collapsed, and paramedics were working on him.
As they tried to revive the man, who did not survive the apparent heart attack, an officer handed the man's 6-year-old grandson to Summee.
Little Antonio Perez had come to the game with his grandfather, whose name the Reds did not release, to celebrate Tony Perez Bobblehead Night.
Over the next 2½ hours, Summee and numerous Reds players and coaches stepped up to comfort and entertain the boy.
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At one point, the child asked: "How am I going to get home?"
"I told him I'd take him home," Summee said. "But he knew his grandmother's name and phone number."
A call was made, but the boy is from Hamilton, and it would take awhile for his parents and grandmother to get to the ballpark.
Summee still wanted to get Antonio away from the stands, so he took him into the Reds' bullpen, where bullpen coach Tom Hume let him sit on the bench for the last two innings of the game.
Then Ken Griffey Jr. became aware of what was going on and took charge.
"Win or lose, he was coming in the clubhouse," Griffey said.
As the Reds wrapped up their 8-5 victory over the Braves, Griffey went to the bullpen and got the boy.
The players included Antonio in their high-five celebration. Then they took him into the clubhouse.
"We play a game," Griffey said later. "What he was going through doesn't compare.
"It was important that the little guy not be by himself."