A baseball collided with the face of 11-year-old Jordan Andreas, who had been standing at the plate.

Andreas wiped away the blood and shed just a single tear — the only tear Standout Baseball’s Kevin Batista had ever seen roll down Andreas’ cheek.

Andreas, who grew up in Las Vegas before moving to St. George a few years ago, was the only girl in Batista’s Standout Baseball infield training class with a dozen boys.

“There was a time right there where she could have been there, and all those boys would have said, ‘Oh, there she goes. She’s a girl. Can’t handle it,’” Batista said.

But Andreas toughed it out, as well as all the other shots to the finger and chest she took — not to mention all the mental shots — because, as Batista said, “she’s just built different.”

“There’s always those

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