In the annals of baseball history, you typically think of larger-than-life figures when it comes to the sport's most heroic moments.
Take, for instance, the world-famous 1988 World Series walk-off home run from baseball folk hero Kirk Gibson.
The then-Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder was battered, injured and barely able to round the bases (as you'll soon see), but when his team needed him most, he delivered on the biggest stage:
https://youtu.be/N4nwMDZYXTI?si=z6DJ0GHjFd41WPAL&t=398
Well, turns out you don't need to be a larger-than-life figure, nor on the biggest stage, to deliver when your baseball team needs it most.
You can be a humble batboy, and still be a massive hero for a franchise as storied as those very same Dodgers.
A clear-cut example of this came during the typically mellow doldrums of June professional baseball.
The Dodgers traveled to face the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday, in an otherwise nondescript game.
The much better Dodgers (51-31 going into Friday evening's games, and the top team in the NL West) beat the woeful White Sox (22-61, and in dead-last place in the AL Central) to the score of 4-0.
The Dodgers opened up their 4-0 lead in the third inning and never looked back.
Much to the thanks of both the Dodgers franchise and its do-it-all superstar Shohei Ohtani, one team batboy also wasn't looking backwards -- because Ohtani could be devastatingly injured otherwise.
First, the viral clip:
