Ontario pitcher Zack McQuaid bouncing back at Canada Games after car crash
WINNIPEG — A year ago Zack McQuaid was lying immobilized in a hospital bed, wondering if he’d ever walk again.
The 17-year-old from Oshawa, Ont., had been in a head-on collision that fractured three vertebrae and broke his right hand in three places.
But a year and three days after the July 26, 2016 crash, McQuaid was on the mound as the starting pitcher for Team Ontario’s first baseball game at the Canada Games.
“Since Day 1, it’s been my goal to come back for the summer Games because I knew it was a big year this year,” the right-hander said Saturday after throwing four scoreless innings with four hits, eight strikeouts and no walks in Ontario’s 14-4 win over Prince Edward Island.