{"id":19101,"date":"2016-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/dad-saves-son-from-flying-baseball-bat-and-certain-injury\/"},"modified":"2016-03-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T00:00:00","slug":"dad-saves-son-from-flying-baseball-bat-and-certain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/dad-saves-son-from-flying-baseball-bat-and-certain-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad saves son from flying baseball bat and certain injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A man in the US is being hailed a hero after he narrowly saved his eight-year-old son from certain injury after a baseball bat flew into the crowd at a training game.<\/h3>\n<p>The weekend training game played in Florida between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves nearly turned ugly after a batter lost his grip and sent a bat on a helicopter spin into the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dad saves son from flying baseball bat and certain injury | FIVEAA\" title=\"Dad saves son from flying baseball bat and certain injury | FIVEAA\" height=\"619\" width=\"785\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/baseball1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Image | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hornerfoto1\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3>Photographer at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hornerfoto1\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Horner<\/a> captured the terrifying moment the bat nearly collected a young boy in the face.<\/h3>\n<p>The boy \u2013 who can be seen holding a phone \u2013 appears to have been caught off guard, and would have been left in serious pain if it wasn\u2019t for his dad, Shaun, who was sitting next to him and who knocked the bat off its path with his arm.<\/p>\n<p>The other nearby spectators can be seen (understandably) turning away.<\/p>\n<p>But not this guy. Great stuff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dad saves son from flying baseball bat and certain injury | FIVEAA\" title=\"Dad saves son from flying baseball bat and certain injury | FIVEAA\" height=\"632\" width=\"794\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/baseball2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Image | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hornerfoto1\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3>Horner later tweeted an image (above) of the moment \u2013 along with the next frame which shows just how close a call this was.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI was just protecting my son,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/sports\/pirates\/10100857-74\/cunningham-bat-landon\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Cunningham told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<\/a>. \u201cThere wasn&#8217;t a lot of time to think about it. I just reacted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dad saves son from flying baseball bat and certain injury | FIVEAA\" title=\"Dad saves son from flying baseball bat and certain injury | FIVEAA\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2016-03-08_at_10.02.56_am.png\" width=\"585\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Image | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hornerfoto1\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/h6>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/more-egg-on-the-afl-s-face-says-mark-robinson\">THE AFL HAS EGG ON ITS FACE, SAYS MARK ROBINSON<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/disturbing-video-of-martin-bryant-goading-police-in-wake-of-port-arthur\">VIDEO SHOWS MARTIN BRYANT GOADING POLICE AFTER PORT ARTHUR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in the US is being hailed a hero after he narrowly saved his eight-year-old son from certain injury after a baseball bat flew into the crowd at a training game. 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