LITHIA, Fla. - If you go to Zavi Gonzalez's house, you're likely to find him in the garage making some noise.

"It's like a normal sound in our house now," Zavi's mom, Aleisha Mullinax, said. "I don't even notice it."

Hitting baseballs into a backstop has become part of his routine, the15-year-old gives it his all for one reason.

"Baseball is a part of me," Gonzalez said. "It's my life."

However, his life is different from most. He plays with a prosthetic leg.

"I want people to look at my and say, 'Dang, he's playing with that, and he's that good,'" Gonzalez said.

What they're saying:

His mom feels nothing but butterflies when he takes the field.

"It does something for me as a mom to see my son accomplish so much in life," Mullinax said. "When I get to watch him play, it just ma

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