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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colorado Rockies pitcher John&amp;nbsp;Axford's&amp;nbsp;son will throw out the first pitch at Friday's game, a little more than a month after he was bitten by a rattlesnake.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two-year-old Jameson Axford was bitten on the foot twice by a rattlesnake in late March while he was with his family in Arizona for spring training. He spent four weeks in intensive care.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Doctors initially feared they would have to amputate the foot. While the foot was saved, Jameson will still need skin graft surgery and other skin-regeneration procedures, according to MLB.com. His first skin graft procedure is next Monday.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jameson is still unable to walk, so he'll take the field in a wheelchair.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"It'll put a smile on my face, for sure,\" Axford said, according to MLB.com. \"Maybe tears in my eyes, too.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Axford&amp;nbsp;left spring training for a week to be with his son and later spent 10 more days away from the team when doctors discovered a staph infection in the foot.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jameson's arms are just fine, though, so he's ready to show off at Coors Field. Axford just isn't sure which hand he'll use, because Jameson likes to throw with both.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Dan Gartland&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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