--- description: A 9-year-old boy who was hit in the head on Saturday during a National baseball Congress World Series game has died title: 9-Year-Old Bat Boy Dies After Being Hit in the Head During a Game image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Baseball](/tag/baseball/) ## Baseball Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 9-Year-Old Bat Boy Dies After Being Hit in the Head During a Game by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 3, 2015 12:26 PM CUT by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 3, 2015 12:26 PM CUT A 9-year-old boy who was hit in the head on Saturday during a National baseball Congress World Series game has died, the amateur Liberal Bee Jays baseball team [announced](https://www.facebook.com/LiberalBeeJays?fref=nf "undefined") on its Facebook. Kaiser Carlile was running to pick up a bat on the ground near the on-deck hitter, who didn’t notice him and accidentally hit him on the head with a practice swing, [CBS](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kaiser-carlile-bat-boy-hit-in-head-during-game-dies/ "undefined") reports. Paramedic and home-plate umpire Mark Goldfeder treated Carlile until the ambulance arrived. “With the permission of the family, and with much sorrow and a very broken heart, I regretfully inform everyone that Kaiser Carlile passed away earlier this evening. Please keep his family and our team in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you all for the support during this ordeal!” said the team’s president, Nathan McCaffrey. > [](https://twitter.com/teldridge24/status/628061997943422976) Carlile was wearing a helmet, as required. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3981971/9-year-old-bat-boy-dies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3981971/9-year-old-bat-boy-dies/"},"headline":"9-Year-Old Bat Boy Dies After Being Hit in the Head During a Game","datePublished":"2015-08-03T12:26:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:50:14.710Z","description":"Kaiser Carlile was running to pick up a bat on the ground when he was hit by a practice swing by the on-deck hitter","url":"https://time.com/3981971/9-year-old-bat-boy-dies/","keywords":["Baseball"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/baseball/","name":"Baseball"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3981971/9-year-old-bat-boy-dies/","name":"9-Year-Old Bat Boy Dies After Being Hit in the Head During a Game"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Wearing a Weapon: The Football Helmet's Dangerous Evolution","description":"The history of how helmets arrived on the football field","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ArcR8sPL/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-28T20:10:52.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ArcR8sPL.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3981971/9-year-old-bat-boy-dies/","duration":"PT2M19S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3981971/9-year-old-bat-boy-dies/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```