Swinging Back: Warsaw native Andrew Dillon plays baseball season at Bethel with cancer
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[{'start': '0.000', 'end': '5.040', 'text': 'back. The 2025 season is in the books'}, {'start': '2.879', 'end': '7.520', 'text': 'for the Bethl baseball team out of'}, {'start': '5.040', 'end': '9.960', 'text': "Mishawaka, but it's certainly not a"}, {'start': '7.520', 'end': '12.719', 'text': 'season this team and community will soon'}, {'start': '9.960', 'end': '17.039', 'text': 'forget. 21 Alive sports reporter Andy'}, {'start': '12.719', 'end': '18.960', 'text': 'Newman shares a powerful story.'}, {'start': '17.039', 'end': '21.439', 'text': 'Bethl sophomore and Waw Bash native'}, {'start': '18.960', 'end': '23.439', 'text': 'Andrew Dylan found a love for baseball'}, {'start': '21.439', 'end': '25.439', 'text': "right off the bat. I've loved baseball"}, {'start': '23.439', 'end': '27.439', 'text': 'since I was a little kid. I was always'}, {'start': '25.439', 'end': '28.800', 'text': 'out in the backyard playing and it was'}, {'start': '27.439', 'end': '31.119', 'text': 'my dad that really instilled that into'}, {'start': '28.800', 'end': '33.440', 'text': 'me. Andrew never gave up on his devotion'}, {'start': '31.119', 'end': '36.160', 'text': 'to the game and eventually earned a spot'}, {'start': '33.440', 'end': '38.239', 'text': 'here at Bethl, but always loved one part'}, {'start': '36.160', 'end': '40.000', 'text': "of baseball the most. It's really the"}, {'start': '38.239', 'end': '41.840', 'text': 'team aspect of it. I love hanging out'}, {'start': '40.000', 'end': '42.960', 'text': 'with these guys especially and just'}, {'start': '41.840', 'end': '45.440', 'text': 'being a part of something bigger than'}, {'start': '42.960', 'end': '47.520', 'text': 'myself. On February 14th, the term'}, {'start': '45.440', 'end': '50.399', 'text': 'baseball, which Andrew had associated'}, {'start': '47.520', 'end': '53.039', 'text': 'with love and family for so much of his'}, {'start': '50.399', 'end': '55.120', 'text': 'life, became intertwined with a word no'}, {'start': '53.039', 'end': '58.600', 'text': 'one wants to hear. I went into the ER'}, {'start': '55.120', 'end': '61.039', 'text': "and they found the mass and I didn't"}, {'start': '58.600', 'end': '62.719', 'text': 'really process it at first. It was a'}, {'start': '61.039', 'end': '64.320', 'text': 'baseball-sized tumor is what they said.'}, {'start': '62.719', 'end': '66.479', 'text': 'I think it was after surgery that they'}, {'start': '64.320', 'end': '68.400', 'text': 'told us for sure that it was cancer. And'}, {'start': '66.479', 'end': '70.880', 'text': "that's when it really hit me like, wo."}, {'start': '68.400', 'end': '73.200', 'text': "Dylan's life changed in an instant. And"}, {'start': '70.880', 'end': '76.080', 'text': 'when he took a step back, it put so many'}, {'start': '73.200', 'end': '77.840', 'text': 'of his setbacks into focus. I was still'}, {'start': '76.080', 'end': '79.759', 'text': 'coming to practices in January,'}, {'start': '77.840', 'end': '81.840', 'text': 'February, and I was struggling to time'}, {'start': '79.759', 'end': '83.600', 'text': 'up a fastball off the machine. I I was'}, {'start': '81.840', 'end': '85.600', 'text': "wondering why I wasn't hitting as well"}, {'start': '83.600', 'end': '87.640', 'text': 'as I normally would. Well, because I had'}, {'start': '85.600', 'end': '90.479', 'text': 'a baseball inside my head. After the'}, {'start': '87.640', 'end': '93.439', 'text': 'diagnosis, doctors successfully removed'}, {'start': '90.479', 'end': '95.840', 'text': 'most of the first ever unwanted baseball'}, {'start': '93.439', 'end': '98.880', 'text': "in Andrew's life. When he finally woke"}, {'start': '95.840', 'end': '100.799', 'text': 'up, support from all around Indiana'}, {'start': '98.880', 'end': '103.280', 'text': 'flooded in. When I first got my phone'}, {'start': '100.799', 'end': '105.119', 'text': "back after surgery, it didn't even work"}, {'start': '103.280', 'end': '106.640', 'text': 'with all the messages and all the'}, {'start': '105.119', 'end': '109.200', 'text': 'notifications I had. All the support'}, {'start': '106.640', 'end': '110.960', 'text': 'from the Bethl community and Wabash has'}, {'start': '109.200', 'end': '112.880', 'text': 'been pretty crazy. Dylan started his'}, {'start': '110.960', 'end': '115.360', 'text': 'first rounds of radiation and daily'}, {'start': '112.880', 'end': '117.840', 'text': 'chemo soon after to fight the remaining'}, {'start': '115.360', 'end': '120.240', 'text': 'cancer. But despite everything and with'}, {'start': '117.840', 'end': '123.439', 'text': 'the community on his side, his devotion'}, {'start': '120.240', 'end': '124.960', 'text': 'to baseball and his team never wavered.'}, {'start': '123.439', 'end': '126.799', 'text': 'I was ready to get back out on the field'}, {'start': '124.960', 'end': '129.360', 'text': "as soon as possible. No place I'd rather"}, {'start': '126.799', 'end': '130.720', 'text': 'be. I remember coming here and taking'}, {'start': '129.360', 'end': '132.319', 'text': 'some swings off the tea and it felt like'}, {'start': '130.720', 'end': '134.319', 'text': "I'd never picked up a bat before. The"}, {'start': '132.319', 'end': '136.400', 'text': 'sophomore worked hard and just over a'}, {'start': '134.319', 'end': '139.040', 'text': 'month later, despite actively going'}, {'start': '136.400', 'end': '141.200', 'text': 'through chemo and radiation, returned to'}, {'start': '139.040', 'end': '143.040', 'text': 'the field.'}, {'start': '141.200', 'end': '144.720', 'text': "I don't know how he does it. It's just a"}, {'start': '143.040', 'end': '146.640', 'text': 'miracle and how he does it. And the way'}, {'start': '144.720', 'end': '148.720', 'text': "he's putting in his heart and that he is"}, {'start': '146.640', 'end': '150.560', 'text': 'still able to do this is insane. Not'}, {'start': '148.720', 'end': '152.879', 'text': 'just for me, but all of us, our coaching'}, {'start': '150.560', 'end': '154.560', 'text': "staff, his teammates, he's just an"}, {'start': '152.879', 'end': '157.360', 'text': 'inspiration. The fact that he comes out'}, {'start': '154.560', 'end': '159.519', 'text': 'here every day um to be on this baseball'}, {'start': '157.360', 'end': '161.760', 'text': "field because of it's what he loves and"}, {'start': '159.519', 'end': '163.920', 'text': "we're in awe. Now when Dylan trots out"}, {'start': '161.760', 'end': '165.920', 'text': 'onto the diamond, it means the whole'}, {'start': '163.920', 'end': '168.640', 'text': 'world to the people who have seen it'}, {'start': '165.920', 'end': '171.879', 'text': 'hundreds of times before. His parents,'}, {'start': '168.640', 'end': '174.400', 'text': 'Brian and Michelle. No day is promised.'}, {'start': '171.879', 'end': '177.280', 'text': 'And every time we see him out on the'}, {'start': '174.400', 'end': '179.200', 'text': 'field or every visit I have with him is'}, {'start': '177.280', 'end': '182.239', 'text': "more special than the next. He's where"}, {'start': '179.200', 'end': '184.879', 'text': "he's at because of his faith. And I just"}, {'start': '182.239', 'end': '186.879', 'text': "wish I was as strong as he is. I don't"}, {'start': '184.879', 'end': '189.840', 'text': 'know where he got his strength, but I'}, {'start': '186.879', 'end': '192.959', 'text': 'want to be like him. Through it all, the'}, {'start': '189.840', 'end': '195.760', 'text': 'shock, the surgery, the continued chemo'}, {'start': '192.959', 'end': '198.720', 'text': 'and radiation, the practices, and the'}, {'start': '195.760', 'end': '201.599', 'text': 'games, Dylan found an understanding that'}, {'start': '198.720', 'end': '202.800', 'text': 'will influence the rest of his life. I'}, {'start': '201.599', 'end': '205.519', 'text': 'learned not to take anything for'}, {'start': '202.800', 'end': '207.360', 'text': "granted. It's crazy how life can be"}, {'start': '205.519', 'end': '210.239', 'text': 'normal one day and then the next they'}, {'start': '207.360', 'end': '212.159', 'text': "tell you you have cancer. So, I've"}, {'start': '210.239', 'end': '214.560', 'text': "learned every day that I'm at practice"}, {'start': '212.159', 'end': '216.159', 'text': 'or in class not to take it for granted.'}, {'start': '214.560', 'end': '220.110', 'text': 'Reporting from Bethl University in'}, {'start': '216.159', 'end': '222.819', 'text': 'Mishawaka, Andy Newman, 21 Alive Sports.'}, {'start': '220.110', 'end': '222.819', 'text': '[Music]'}]