Indiana kid scores Aaron Judge baseball after meeting with Bronx pol

A 12-year-old baseball fan visiting New York from Indiana struck out trying to get slugger Aaron Judge to sign a baseball — but he got his wish thanks to a chance encounter in a local pizzeria.

Samir Myers and his dad Andy were grabbing a slice at Nick’s Pizza on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx after a July Yankees game when they met one of the most powerful elected officials in the Empire State who just happened to have an in with the Bronx Bombers.

Samir, of Carmel, Indiana, had just seen his first Yankees game on July 31 — a loss to the Kansas City Royals — when he and his dad met a mysterious man who turned out to be state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-East Bronx).

“What would you do if I got you an Aaron Judge autograph?” Heastie said. Samir had just tried unsuccessfully to get Judge’s autograph at the game.

“I didn’t expect anyone to actually like, do something that nice … I thought he was yanking my chain,” Samir told The Post about the unexpected twist during his visit to the five boroughs in celebration of his graduation from elementary school.

The Bronx powerbroker followed up the next day by calling Samir and Andy to say the Yankees were already on the case while they continued the 11-hour drive back home to Carmel.

“It’s like: ‘Wow, yeah, he might actually do it,’” Samir said.

While declining to name who specifically helped fulfill the request, Heastie told The Post that helping Samir came after years working with the Yankees on a range of local issues, including the construction of a new stadium that opened in 2009.

“I didn’t speak to Aaron Judge, but I spoke to some of the executives [and] all the teams here in New York are pretty good when you ask them to do things community-wise,” said Heastie, who first detailed his effort on behalf of Samir in a Twitter thread post Saturday.

Fulfilling the request took months, but the Bronx pol added that contacts he developed over his career in politics eventually came through, with an express mail package with the baseball arriving on the Myers’ doorstep last Monday.

“It’s just about being nice to somebody,” Heastie explained about the effort that began after he stopped into Nick’s, a favorite pizza joint of his in the district he has repped since 2001.

Heastie was hardly the only aggressively friendly New Yorker who left an impression on the Myers during their time away from the Midwest, with the father-son duo also encountering an Airbnb host who practically begged to drive them to lower Manhattan to see the sites all the way from the Bronx.

A baseball autographed by Aaron Judge is a hot item following a season when the now-free agent broke an American League record by smacking 62 home runs this season, with prices ranging from hundreds to millions of dollars – depending on the story attached to it.

But Andy Myers, the budget director at Butler University, says he and his son got something truly priceless after that chance encounter at Nick’s Pizza with a political big shot who wanted to spread some happiness around his district and beyond by helping a boy get a baseball inked by his 6’7 hero.

“There’s always that kind of gruff and hurried reputation of the people who live in New York City,” he said. “That was not the experience that we had. It was an eye opener for me.”