The Giants and the Dodgers are arch rivals but that didn’t stop LA’s Matt Kemp from performing a very classy gesture in SF. After his team had just gotten swept in the series, Kemp spotted a kid in the audience. The Dodger outfielder approached the boy, who happened to be terminally ill. Overcome by emotion, Kemp literally gave him the shirt off his back, before also volunteering his hat and then his shoes.
The boy, Joshua Jones has inoperable cancer and is expected to live only 90 days, was awed by the generous gesture. Kemp did it spontaneously and was unaware a fan’s camera phone was recording his every action.
See for yourself in this clip, the joy that baseball can bring:
