Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Brooks Raley says the shooting in Texas on Tuesday hit very close to home for him ... revealing Wednesday he actually attended Robb Elementary School as a kid growing up in Uvalde.
"I walked those halls," the 33-year-old reliever told media members at his locker. "I can't imagine what they experienced yesterday."
Raley said he learned that a gunman had killed 19 students and two teachers at the school from family and friends who still live in the city .