Young dad dies in B.C. after being hit in the head during slo-pitch game

VICTORIA — A slo-pitch player on Vancouver Island has died, 10 days after suffering a severe brain injury when he was hit by a softball.

Chris Godfrey’s family says he died on Wednesday after being hit by a ball thrown from the infield as he ran for a base during a slo-pitch tournament in Comox on Aug. 19.

Godfrey, a husband and father of a one-year-old girl, was not wearing a helmet.

He was flown to hospital in Victoria after the accident and remained on life support following surgery.