this wasn t even close in the end. lowrie winning by six strokes. winning his first major so close to home, it was just a dream come true. it was just incredible to walk down, the crowd going wild. it s like something that, you know, i just can t i couldn t believe was happening to me. all right. scary moments at the indians oi oi royals game. a 3-year-old boy was struck taken to the hospital. after the game lindor said more needs to be done to protect the fans. it sucks. you don t want that to happen to anybody, especially a little kid. i encourage every mlb team to put nut nets down. i completely get that.
was a dream come true. it was just incredible to walk down with the crowd going wild singing. it was like it s like something that, you know, i just i wouldn t believe was happening to me. all right. scary moment yesterday at the indians game. a screaming line drive into the stands. it struck a 3-year-old boy. he had to be taken to the hospital. lindor said more needs to be done to protect the fans. the netting does go to the end of each dugout. the boy was sitting just beyond that. these are the teams that have announced they will extend past the dugout for next season. alisyn, we ll wait now to see if the indians react to that boy getting hit and agree to extend the netting toward the foul poles. we ve seen too many of these stories. thank you for that report. all right. new day continues right now.
you want to have that interaction with fans giving autographs and stuff, but at the end of the day we want to make sure everybody comes out of this game healthy. lindor said he heard the boy was doing okay. the netting at progressive field does go to the end of each digout, these. national basketball hall of fame enshrining six new members. yankees mariana rivera. the first ever unanimous decision. roy halladay died in a plane crash in 2017. his wife brandy took the stage to given his induction speech. roy would want everyone to know people are not perfect. we are all imperfect or flawed in one way or another. we all struggle but with hard
welcome back. the time now for sports. we begin with college hoops where the ncaa rule book has received a face look following a multi year investigation into corruption in the sporgs. among the biggest changes, elite players may be represented by ncaa certified agents and any underclassman that declare for the nba draft will be eligible to return to school. all right. let s go to major league baseball. we will start with the indians hosting the twins. game tied in the bottom of the ninth. cleveland with runners on the corners. lindor, swings and drives it! deep right field. gone! francisco lender slugs a three-run homer out to deep right field, walking the indians off with a 5-2 win.
in his native puerto rico where there hasn t been much to cheer about since hurricane maria roared ashore. he was born 27 miles from san juan and the first time he s played on this stage in puerto rico. he had 67 family and friends and he didn t miss an opportunity to make them all smile. look at this. a two-run home run sending the fans into an absolute frenzy and the crowd chanted his name until he came out of the dugout for a curtain call. his mom said this is the greatest feeling she s ever had. lindor himself said this it gives me goosebumps just to know she thinks that way. it s extremely special. she put a lot of time and a lot of effort to get me on the right path. when i was a little kid i was always going in different directions and she took a long time to guide me down the right path and this is for them.