{"id":353998,"date":"2023-12-16T00:48:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T01:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=353998"},"modified":"2023-12-16T02:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T02:01:04","slug":"georgia-high-school-baseball-player-dies-after-being-hit-in-head-by-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=353998","title":{"rendered":"Georgia high school baseball player dies after being hit in head by bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A Georgia high school student who was hit in the head with a baseball bat has died after spending three weeks in a coma, the family announced on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Gainesville High School (Ga.) student Jeremy Medina, 18, was injured during baseball practice on Nov. 20 when he was hit in the head with a bat while in the batting cage on campus, the school system\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCSSK12\/status\/1727474202024845562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">said<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. According to CBS Sports, school principal Jamie Green said there was no horseplay, misconduct, or intent to make contact with a person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He spent three weeks in a coma and was declared brain dead less than a week before passing away, according to CBS, which reported that he would be an organ donor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Medina pitched and caught for the team in the 2022 season. Gainesville and students took part in a\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/pray4jeremy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pray4Jeremy<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0campaign led by his family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe know Jeremy was and will always be in God\u2019s hands and we will see him soon. We are grateful for all the prayers and support over the last three weeks, and we appreciate everyone\u2019s understanding as we take time now to be with our family,&#8221; the Medina family said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">An honor walk will take place at Northeast Georgia Medical Center, where Medina was a patient, to commemorate his desire to be an organ donor, according to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5135706\/2023\/12\/13\/jeremy-medina-death-bat-hit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Athletic<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Jeremy Medina of Gainesville High School in Georgia passed away following a three-week coma after being hit in the head with a bat.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353999,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353998\/revisions\/353999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}