5-Year-Old Vegas girl throws first pitch at baseball game with 3D hand

WATCH ABOVE: A five-year-old girl from Las Vegas threw the first pitch with her new 3D-printed hand at a baseball game on Monday.

Five-year-old Hailey Dawson had a single goal on Monday night at the baseball game between the Orioles and Oakland Athletics: to throw the first pitch with her new 3D-printed hand.

Dawson was born with a rare birth defect called Poland Syndrome, the underdevelopment or absence of muscle on one side of the body. In this case, Dawson’s right hand is affected.

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The young girl from Las Vegas was given a robotic hand by engineering students from the University of Nevada who were inspired by Dawson’s condition, giving her the opportunity to throw a baseball out to her favourite player, Manny Machado.