This story has been posted before, and I’ll write the same thing I did then. I personally know Shaya and his family. His father told me that R’ Krohn blew this story out of proportion. It wasn’t the last inning, the team wasn’t down by one run, and Shaya didn’t win the game. He simply asked if he could hit, and the boys stopped their game to give him a chance. They gave him the home run, true, but he was never picked up on their shoulders or anything like that.
It doesn’t take away from the message of what the boys did, but the details should be told truthfully.