Servicemen who threw out first pitch bound together before game

12:03 AM, Oct 28, 2007   |    comments
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Marine Staff Sergeant Kade Hinkhouse walked to the mound with a limp. The other man, Army Staff Sergeant Matt Keil, was in a motorized wheelchair.

"We were just floored that they were giving us a chance to do something like this," Keil said.

"I just hope that I do a good job, up to their standards," Hinkhouse said.

Earlier in the day, the two men were honored at the Commerce City VFW post.

Keil, who was injured during a sniper attack in Iraq, is out of the hospital and living in Parker. Hinkhouse has left the service and is living in Colorado Springs, where he is beginning college.

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