This is awful news.
Nine-year-old Kaiser Carlile, the bat boy for the Liberal, Kansas Bee Jays of the Jayhawk Collegiate League, has died after being struck in the head by a bat.
Carlile was retrieving a bat and was running past the on-deck circle following an out. He was wearing a helmet. Local reports say that Carlile was immediately tended to by the home plate umpire, who is a paramedic, and from EMTs who were already on site due to another, unrelated call at the stadium. It was a freak accident and, based on how quickly he was tended to, it seems like nothing could be done.
The Liberal Bee Jays kneel in prayer after discovering the tragic news of Kaiser Carlile's passing after the game. pic.twitter.com/OEMrHXiQrU
— Taylor Eldridge (@teldridge24) August 3, 2015
By Glenn Erby
