CHICAGO — Darren Georgia did not expect his night to go the way it has, but here he is, sitting in a green stadium chair in section 140 at Guaranteed Rate Field, speaking about how this all happened. It’s a Tuesday, and the Chicago White Sox are in the fifth inning against the Kansas City Royals. Rain is in the forecast (perennially, it seems), so Georgia wears his black MLB cap backward above his glasses.



He laughs. Again and again. He laughs because his Nikon D4 camera remains intact.



“When the pitch happened,” Georgia tells The Athletic, “I really didn’t see it coming.”



No kidding.



After riding the train 45 minutes from West Town, Chicago, where he lives, Georgia did what he typically does in his third year as a photography intern for the White Sox. He grabbed his camera, stepped out onto the infield turf and crouched into position to shoot the first pitch.



He had taken so many of these photos. He...