Ky. High school baseball team pays a tribute for the killed player in the crash, who was killed

Lexington, Ky. (WKYT) Fayette County student who knew and loved a 17-year-old who was killed on Saturday in a lexing tone crash on his life this evening with a touching tribute.

Matthew Perrine was a player in the baseball team of the Frederick Douglass High School.

Tuesday marks the team's first home game since his death.

“Matthew was just a good child. He was stupid, he was silly, but he was the boy who, no matter how seriously, no matter how seriously, no matter what he was going on in his own world when he came on the baseball field, he was number one number one who needed the number one that the head of the chef -baseball coach from baseball, Braden Johnson,.

Johnson said it was a few tough days for the team since the outfield died.

“It is okay to cry, it's okay to scream, it's okay to have your own emotions. I am not a very emotional type, but you saw how I relying on Big Mike and cry. I think that is really important for the adults to show the children how we can get through,” he said.

Johnson said, through the sadness associated with the loss of a teammate, you will find ways of honoring Matthew in honor of his jersey number behind the hometown.

“We will make a blackout evening. His favorite jersey combination was our all Black. He also loved Batman, so we make everything darkened tonight, we make music with Batman issues and warm-up and walk-out songs and all the stuff,” said Johnson.

Johnson said he hoped that these efforts promote a sense of community and show the team that they are together on this healing.

“Hopefully the boys, while we talk to them, can use this to grow together in their relationships with each other, and in fact his brother Big Mike said that he said life was precious and you have each other and at the end of the day, that is what you need, are each other,” he said.

He added that the support that the baseball family received was amazing.

Johnson said he had other teams to take care of the boys and also to wear memorial bracelets and ligaments in honor of Matthew.

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