Watched it, LIVE.
Very scary....Almora was understandibly shaken....as was the entire stadium.
The news we’re hearing is good....that the child was taken to hospital for precautionary check....and appears to be doing fine.
Prayers continuing.
The ball went over the safety net...with great speed.
“As soon as I hit it, the first person I locked eyes on was her,” Almora said. “With God willing, I’ll be able to have a relationship with this little girl for the rest of my life. But just prayers right now, and that’s all I really can control. I’m speechless. I’m at loss of words. Being a father of two boys, I want to put a net all around the stadium.”
Glad she is ok and nice to see players still care about more than $$.
Very scary....Almora was understandibly shaken....as was the entire stadium.
Couple of years ago, there was an incident in a Phillies’ home game. The Phillies had a runner on first, and a left-handed batter at the plate. The baserunner overcommitted in his secondary lead, and the catcher fired an accurate throw to the first baseman. That was seen very clearly by the catcher, of course, and by the baserunner (I believe it was the Phillies’s backup catcher).It was not seen by the first baseman - nor by very many others in the stadium FTM. For the reason that the left-handed batter had lost his hold on the bat, which flew straight into an occupied area of the first-base side seats. The first baseman, and most of the rest of the occupants of the stadium, were transfixed by that vision. The baserunner saw only that he was being picked off - except that the first baseman didn’t catch the ball, which rolled down the fair line to the wall. Given what he saw, his natural reaction was to say, “feet, do your duty” - and circle the bases.
He scored a run, and it counted. What else could anyone do?