SFC Brian Keaton’s first pitch
That’s wounded veteran, Sergeant First Class Brian Keaton in the picture above tossing out the first pitch at Game 2 of the National League’s Division Series the other day. From Associated Press;
Retired vet Brian Keaton walked onto the grass before getting on his stomach and crawling several feet at Nationals Park on Saturday. He threw the ball with his left hand from behind the mound and the toss bounced home.
The crowd cheered loudly before San Francisco played Washington.
According to the Nationals, Keaton was wounded in a bomb explosion. The team said he spent 3 1-2 years at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recovering from a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The video;
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I watched the video of this last night, the amazing crowd response to him before he even went out to the mound was simply amazing.
Outstanding job SFC Keaton!!
Thats awesome. I wonder if he yelled ‘frag out’ as well.
First thing I thought of on seeing the picture was the grenade throw on the old mid 60s) PT test.
Or if the catcher yelled, “Incoming!”
Cool.
Best…first pitch eveahhhhh. Lol
3 1/2 years at Walter Reed? Man. However he delivered that pitch is okay with me: grenade toss, grenade launcher, whatever. I hope he had at least as many smiles as he gave every one. (One question: Was this on Sports Center Top 10 or was it too politically incorrect for that crew? Anyone know?)
Cool!!! Simply just, way cool! Way to go, way to be Sergeant First Class Brian Keaton!
Good stuff!
This was definitely awesome. He also seemed to write something into the mound before he walked off, but no one that I saw asked him about that.