SAN DIEGO —
When Keane Webre-Hayes stepped up to throw the first pitch at Tuesday’s Padres game — about nine months after he nearly lost his arm in a shark attack — he had one goal: make it over the plate.
But for his mother, who can’t forget her 14-year-old son’s harrowing shrieks the day of the attack, it was so much more than a game-worthy pitch.
“It symbolized overcoming. It symbolized survival,” Ellie Hayes said. “It symbolized all the work that we have been doing day in and day out. Most people don’t see that part, but for me… I was so very proud.