(Daily Reuters) Bryan Stow successfully detained up a baseball before flinging the ritual first pitch at the San Francisco Giants’ home opener Friday.

Aided by a mall walker, the admirer put on the Giants’ orange and black, the same insignia he was tiring 10 years ago when he was compressed and nearly slayed.

In 2011, Stow appeared an Opening Day game at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. Probing for a cab posterior to his guesthouse with his supports, Stow was blindsided by an attack in the car parks lot, his skull beating the crushed in a reduction as the assailants then jolted his skull and ribs. The paramedic and father of two adhered to life in a blackout for the next nine months.

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Two men were fined in the occurrence and punished to prison in 2014.

After 10 years and what doctors called a amazing retrieval from plain brain and spinal wounds, Stow was on the pitcher’s knoll Friday. At home bowl was another baseball hero: Alyssa Nakken.

Nakken, the first female trainer on a Chief Association Baseball operate in league history, is in her second season as an assistant coach for the Giants. The two shook hands and embraced for a photograph after the pitch.

With his family in presence, Stow then observed his preferred team conquest the Colorado Rockies 3-1.

Since the attack, Stow has spoken to societies and schools through the Bryan Stow Foundation, supporting for an end to bullying and fan ferocity and hopeful people to live kinder lives.