Cleveland Indians visit boy injured last summer at Scrappers game

BOARDMAN — Four-year-old Luke Holko of Greene Township is working on a comeback so amazing that he has major league admiration.

Indians pitchers Chris Perez, Aaron Laffey and David Huff visited the Trumbull County boy, who is recovering from being hit in the head by a foul ball on Sept. 5 at a Mahoning Valley Scrappers game, at Akron Children’s Hospital Beeghly Campus.

During the Indians’ press tour gathering today that attracted about 100 fans, Luke’s mother, Nicole, said her son is making progress every day after the life-threatening injury.

“He’s doing really great,” said Nicole, who added that Luke on Monday was able to take steps “without anybody holding on to him. His talking almost is completely back to where it was before this happened.

“Without everybody’s support and especially everybody’s prayers, we wouldn’t have him,” she said, adding the family’s thanks to the doctors and staff of Akron Children’s Hospital as well as the emergency personnel from Lane Ambulance and St. Elizabeth Hospital Health Center who cared for Luke after the accident.

“He’s been getting better every day,” Nicole said. “We have our son back thanks to them.”

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