Wesley Claytor rose both arms into the air when his bat shattered — not the blue one in his hands, but the wooden one before his eyes.
At the MLB All-Star FanFest on Saturday, Claytor, a 9-year-old from Richmond, took part in the Virtual Reality Home Run Derby game. He swung a bat with a sensor on it and had goggles over his eyes, seeing Nationals Park erupt when his final swing sent the ball out of the yard to straightaway center field.
He covered his face when he left the batting cage and gave his mother, April Kloke, a high-five, ecstatic early in his trip to the Walter E.