ADAMS TWP — Having already enjoyed a memorable trip, the Bednar family was in for a memorable moment.

Mars graduate David Bednar’s family arrived in Los Angeles July 17 to join him for a few days leading up to Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game. The Pittsburgh Pirate closer was the Bucs’ only representative on the National League roster.

“There were 13 of us out there,” said Andy Bednar, David’s father. “Will was even able to be there. He’s on the injured list right now with a lower back strain.”

Will Bednar, David’s younger brother, was the 14th overall selection in the 2021 MLB Draft by the San Francisco Giants. He is pitching in Class A this season.

David Bednar’s agent, Jeff Randazzo, is part of an agency that had three other major leaguers in the game.

“His agency threw a big party on Monday and that was fantastic,” Andy Bednar said. “We went to breakfast and sitting at a table nearby were Paul Goldschmidt, Manny Machado and Miggy Cabrera.

“It was incredible just thinking about our son being in that kind of company. We walked down a street near Dodger Stadium and bumped into (former Pirate pitcher) Joe Musgrove. I was wearing a Bednar Pirates’ jersey and he asked me if I knew David. When I told him I was his father, we got to talking about how Joe was traded to his hometown of San Diego and David got to come to his hometown of Pittsburgh in the same deal.

“The whole thing was pretty cool,” Bednar added.

The Bednar family’s seats were in the second deck at Dodger Stadium, three rows up. They were joined by some special company.

“We sat next to (Chicago Cub outfielder) Ian Happ’s mother,” Sue Bednar, David’s mother, said. “David and Ian played travel ball together when they were 7 or 8 years old. They were teammates for the Allegheny team (in summer ball) years later.

“Just getting together in Dodger Stadium, All-Star Game, both of our sons ... It was like, what is happening here?”

But would they see David pitch?

Bednar warmed up briefly in the fourth inning, but sat down. The National League’s plan, according to an article written by Ken Rosenthal for The Athletic, he was to be used to mop up an inning if a pitcher got in trouble. Bednar began warming up because Dodgers hurler Tony Gosolin was struggling.

But Gosolin settled down, Bednar sat down — and his night was seemingly over.

New York Mets’ closer Edwin Diaz was slated to pitch the ninth inning. But Rosenthal wrote that Diaz and other NL pitchers still in the bullpen were lobbying for Bednar to pitch that final frame.

“My understanding is that Diaz wanted to give up his inning because this was David’s first All-Star Game,” Andy Bednar said.

Diaz had pitched for the Seattle Mariners in the 2018 All-Star Game.

“We didn’t know if he was coming into the game,” Sue Bednar said. “We had no great expectations there. We weren’t worried about it. We were just taking in the whole experience.”

When Bednar did take the mound for the ninth, Happ was playing in center field.

“That made it even more special,” she said.

“I know I was beyond pumped,” David Bednar was quoted by Rosenthal. “To see everybody else there so excited for me made it even more special.”

Though the National League took a 3-2 loss, Bednar worked a scoreless ninth inning. He allowed a walk, but retired Corey Seager, Jose Trevino and J.D. Martinez on ground balls.

He flew to Los Angeles from Denver with Colorado Rockie representative C.J. Cron. He got his star put on a Walk of Fame and walked the red carpet Tuesday with fiancee Casey Merritt, a fellow Mars graduate and former standout soccer player for the Lady Planets.

The scoreless inning capped Bednar’s all-star experience — and left his family wondering what’s next for their son, who was a 35th-round draft choice out of Lafayette in 2016. That round of the draft doesn’t even exist anymore.

“All I can say is, these last 14 or 15 months have been absolutely crazy,” Sue Bednar said. “Besides that, I’m beyond words.”