When a baseball player walks a game off, you’ll typically see his teammates rip his jersey off of him amidst the pandemonium.

Ian Happ’s walk-off single against the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 22 conjured up a wild Wrigley crowd, but as his teammates yanked at his jersey in the mob, it wouldn’t come off.

“I sew the front (of my jersey),” Happ revealed on the newest episode of The Compound Podcast. “Sometimes guys can get the jersey ripped off because it’s buttoned up. My jersey is sewn.”

Happ said only the top two buttons on his jersey aren’t altered — something he picked up from former Cubs teammate Pedro Strop.

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“There was no way that thing was getting ripped off or coming off me in any way,” Happ said.

Happ’s teammates certainly tried, but he said it didn’t take long to give up.

“I think they realized pretty quick,” he joked.

Happ added that in his previous at-bat on that chilly night, he had fouled a ball off his toe so hard that it numbed part of his foot.

“I was a little scared that I was going to get stepped on,” he said.

The one teammate of Happ’s who couldn’t wait to get the celebration going was Pete Crow-Armstrong, who was already on the field and halfway to the mound by the time Vidal Bruján slid across home to score the winning run.

“He was flying!” Happ said of Crow-Armstrong. “But I knew Bruján was going to score … When (the ball) is on the ground to the right side, he’s getting a good jump on that.”

The hit to send the Dodgers packing was only Happ’s second walk-off of his career, with his last coming nearly four years ago.

“I was just enjoying the moment,” he said. “I really wanted to take it in.”