I'm Shankar Vedantam, the host of a podcast called My Unsung Hero.

Each week we share a short story about an act of kindness that changed someone's life.

She cared enough to say something to me, something that probably wasn't easy to say, but

it was something that changed the direction of my life.

So thank you, Holly.

My Unsung Hero.

Listen and renew your faith in humanity.

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With the game tied in two outs in the bottom of the ninth, we've got Sammy Samson coming

to the plate.

Samson is a switch hitter.

With a right-handed pitcher on the mound, he'll be batting lefty.

Here's the pitch.

And...

That ball is going.

Going.

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