Rabbi Aaron Rosenberg, who retired from Temple Emanu-El in Waterford at the end of June, was honored at a Mets game June 30, where he was called to the field to receive the New York Mets Spirit Award.

Rosenberg finished off his 35th year with the congregation by attending the game in Flushing, N.Y. His retirement weekend began with his last Shabbat service and dinner presentations at the temple on June 26, followed by a gala event at Connecticut College on June 27 and ending with the ballgame bus outing to the Mets game with 73 of his Temple Emanu-El congregants.

Members of the temple’s board of trustees had explored ways to make their retiring Rabbi’s last day on the job special and discovered that his favorite baseball team — The Chicago Cubs — were playing the Mets that day. Facilitated by his son David and daughter-in-law Lisa Greenwald Rosenberg, the rabbi was presented with the Spirit Award on the field at the beginning of the game, in honor of his retirement after 35 years with Temple Emanu-El, the longest serving Rabbi in the state of Connecticut.

He was a good sport during the announcer’s speech, which stated that he was a lifelong Mets fan.

A second surprise came, after the image of Rosenberg, with his wife Karen, appeared on the Jumbotron. Mets fan Peter Marcus, formerly of Southington, who lives outside Boston, heard the announcer mention Waterford, Connecticut.

Marcus looked up at the big screen and immediately recognized the rabbi, who had married him to his wife Gail 33 years ago. He was compelled to find a way to greet him in this stadium filled with thousands of people.

“They know me well here,” Marcus said. “I told the security supervisor I knew the rabbi and I had to find him. He married me to Gail on August 22, 1982, in Portland, Connecticut.”

Marcus was told exactly where Rosenberg was sitting. The two were reunited and the Rabbi happily signed Marcus’ baseball.

“I never miss a home game,” said Marcus, who stays at his Forest Hills apartment every Thursday when he travels to New York to watch a Mets home game.