This Mom Saved An Umpire’s Life At Her Son’s Little League Game After He Was Hit In The Throat By A Baseball

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This Mom Saved An Umpire’s Life At Her Son’s Little League Game After He Was Hit In The Throat By A Baseball

Thanks to the actions of a mom and surgeon at a Little League baseball game in Massachusetts, a tragedy was averted. Dr. Jennifer LaFemina, a surgical oncologist at UMass Memorial Health in Worcester, Massachusetts, was in the stands, watching her son play in a baseball tournament in Oxford when the home plate umpire got hit in the throat by a baseball. The baseball had bounced on the ground and struck the umpire, Korey Pontbriand, in the throat…