LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nancy Bea Hefley, who entertained Los Angeles Dodgers fans as the team’s organist for 27 years, died Saturday. She was 89.

Her son, Mark, announced her death in a Facebook post. “We lost my Mom today. She’s in heaven with my Dad, Nancy Bea is gone from us sad day for us but good day for her and my Dad.”

The Dodgers said on X that she “delighted millions of fans for nearly 30 years.”

Public address announcer Todd Leitz informed the Dodger Stadium crowd of Hefley’s death and there was a moment of silence before the game against the Detroit Tigers.

“There was just a gut punch exhale and reaction from this crowd,” backup play-by-play announcer Stephen Nelson said on the television broadcast.

Hefley took over from Helen Dell in 1988 and became as much a fan favorite as Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully and retired manager Tom Lasorda. Scully died in 2022 and Lasorda died in 2021.

Eventually, Hefley’s playing time was reduced in 2015, and after she posted on Facebook that she didn’t fit in, the Dodgers offered her a lifetime contract.

“They said I had a job as long as I want the job, the job would not be open for anyone else,” she told the Los Angeles Times. “I will be signing a new contract at the end of the year.”

But during the final homestand of that season, Hefley announced her retirement. She was honored on the field before her final game.

She was succeeded by Dieter Ruehle, just the third organist the team has had since 1971.