Walker Johnson was back where he belonged — standing on the pitcher’s mound.
He barely paused before bringing the crisp white baseball into his brother’s glove.
“Don’t mess up,” he told himself.
Then he launched a pitch he was never supposed to throw.
The fastball zipped across home plate, a miracle before the fans at Minute Maid Park.
The Houston Warriors baseball player, who celebrated his 14th birthday by throwing out the first pitch at the Astros game on Monday against the Colorado Rockies, was hit in the heart by a line drive in March in the .