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Child with double hand transplant throws first pitch at Orioles game

Tuesday night's ceremonial first pitch at Camden Yards was in no way an ordinary first pitch.

It came courtesy of Zion Harvey, a 9-year-old from from Owings Mills, Maryland, who became the first child in the world to undergo a bilateral hand transplant last summer at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, according to an Orioles press release.

Harvey, who lost his arms and legs to a life-threatening infection when he was 2, started the Baltimore Orioles-Texas Rangers game with an impressive toss to O's outfielder Adam Jones.

Tonight, Zion Harvey, the first child in the world to undergo a bilateral hand transplant, threw the first pitch.