Nearly two dozen reporters from Japanese and Southern California-based news outlets surrounded Los Angeles Dodgers bat boy Javier Herrera on Friday afternoon at Oracle Park in San Francisco.
The 38-year-old fielded questions about how it felt to shield Shohei Ohtani from a line-drive foul ball that could have injured him.
“I don’t know,” a reluctant Herrera said. “I was just doing my job.”
Herrera has been with the club for 18 seasons and said he saw the pitch all the way in, which enabled him to make the face-saving viral play.
“I saw the pitch all the way through,” he said.