Sixty feet and six inches is the standard distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate.
But when 13-year-old Nick LeGrande took the mound to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before an Oakland Athletics' home game in June 2013, he was 1,800 miles away in Kansas City and fighting for his life.
ESPN's E:60 documents LeGrande's story with their new report, Long Toss, about the phenomenal teenager, who was able to throw out the historic first pitch by using a telerobotic pitching machine, marking a first for Major League Baseball.
LeGrande is an A's fan, suffering from a rare blood disorder called severe aplastic anemia, which didn't allow him to attend games, thus the inclusion of the telerobotic pitching machine.
The technology allowed for LeGrande to throw the pitch and watch it from afar on the machine itself as an additional telerobotic machine was also placed on the pitcher's mound at Oakland Coliseum to receive the pitch from Kansas City.
"That a boy, Nick, pretty good arm there, bud," A's reliever Ryan Cook, who caught Nick's ceremonial first pitch, said to the teenager two years back, as documented by ESPN. "Congratulations, bud, you're in the big leagues."
Google told ESPN at the time that LeGrande would use an Android application, which would allow him to control the movements of the robot in Oakland. The robotic machine had a camera perched on it, allowing for LeGrande to livestream the view of Oakland Coliseum receiving his first pitch from Kansas City.
Now, everyone can learn more about LeGrande's story and see it lead up to his historic first pitch.
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