With a dozen visually impaired students from the Vision Resource Program at Curie at her side, Jasmin had one goal for the day:

“I want to hit a baseball,” she said.

By the end of day Wednesday, she not only whacked a ball thrown by White Sox reliever Nate Jones, she caught a ball, threw another an ran the bases. In the outfield, a student asked White Sox shortstop Tyler Saladino a serious question. “Can I have your autograph?” “Yeah, sure,” Saladino said. “As long as I can have yours.” Before he took the mound, Nate Jones asked for some mercy from the batters: “Try not to hit me too hard,” he said.

Jason Benetti, the on-air White Sox commentator, had another request. “Somebody take him deep,” he said. It was a day 17-year-old Javon Baker, a soon-to-be senior at Thornwood High School, will never forget. “I think a lot of us, being visually impaired, would never have had the chance to do something like this,” he said. “This is something everyone should get to experience.” Baker had a short streak of bad luck when he took the plate — until Benetti told him he was swinging too early. Baker took another swing and missed. “You were late,” he said, and Baker laughed. Two pitches later, Baker cracked a ball down the third base line and took his lap around the bases. “You really did crush that one,” Saladino said.

The event was part of Sox Serve Week, a community outreach program running from June 6-12.