Suffolk County Police report a youth baseball coach died this past weekend, after being struck in the head by a baseball.

According to police, at approximately 5:30 p.m., on Sept. 20, officers in the fifth precinct responded to reports of a man being knocked unconscious by a baseball during warm-ups prior to a game at Baseball Heaven, 350 County Road 101, Yaphank. When paramedics arrived at the scene, bystanders were performing CPR on the coach, Richard Becher, 50 of Holbrook.

After being transported to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in East Patchogue, he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.