A good Samaritan's quick reflexes - and sizable forearm - saved the face of a young baseball fan at a training game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves on Saturday. Pirates outfielder Danny Ortiz lost the grip on his bat during a swinging strike, sending the bat whizzing into the seats behind the Braves' dugout, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. With violent force, the bat flew on a direct path towards the face of a boy who was too distracted by his smartphone to notice what was about to befall him. A quick-thinking adult fan seated next to the...
- 3/8/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
A good Samaritan's quick reflexes - and sizable forearm - saved the face of a young baseball fan at a training game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves on Saturday. Pirates outfielder Danny Ortiz lost the grip on his bat during a swinging strike, sending the bat whizzing into the seats behind the Braves' dugout, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. With violent force, the bat flew on a direct path towards the face of a boy who was too distracted by his smartphone to notice what was about to befall him. A quick-thinking adult fan seated next to the...
- 3/8/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
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