The four people who threw out the first pitch prior to the first game of the MLB season each came from a different walk of life, before a terrible tragedy brought them together.
They were a couple living in Richmond, Virginia, the proud parents of a "walking ray of sunshine;" he grew strawberries in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prfecture; and she was leading a normal life in Tokyo.
Everything changed March 11, 2011, when the Tohoku region was ravaged by the effects of a devastating earthquake and tsunami. The four were affected in different, life-altering ways in the aftermath of that day.