here's vick lombardi. >> i live downtown. i have my glove and so i said let's do this. >> reporter: woody roseland's quick reply paid on. next thing you know he was at coors field hanging out with the newly acquired ace of the rockies staff. >> i was like how do you like pitching at coors? he was like this is the first day i've even been at coors, so he was as new to the facility as i was pretty much. i just walked out onto the field and tried the gloves and ball, found a good spot in the outfield and played catch. >> reporter: woody and jeremy tossed the ball around and talked about half an hour, but it wasn't all about baseball. as you can see, woody is an amputee. the 21-year-old lost his leg to cancer, a fight he's been waging five years. >> you expect it to be the worst thing in the world, but when you actually just have to deal with it on a daily basis and use a prosthetic, it hasn't been as bad as i expected. >> reporter: that positive attitude is exactly why woody took a chance answering a tweet. he got day and a souv

vick lombardi reporting from our affiliate.tweeted in an attempt to make someone's day, someone made my day. he said woody touched his heart. we'll see you back here in one

vick lombardi reporting from our affiliate. jeremy tweeted in an attempt to make someone's day, someone made my day. he said woody touched his heart. we'll see you back here in one hour. "the situation room" with wolf blitzer begins right now. >> you're in "the situation room." it's open political warfare after rick santorum's exit from the political race. plus we'll take a closer look at the legal wrangling ahead now that zimmermann is charged in the death of trayvon. and soon you may not recognize the tourist attractions here in the nation's capitol. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> you certainly could say the general election campaign began this week when republican candidate rick santorum declared "the race is over for me." now that mitt romney's toughest challenger is out of the picture, romney and president obama are taking direct jabs at one another. let's bring in our senior correspondent, joe johns. romney, it's his race, he's

vick lombardi of cnn eye fillat kcnc has the story. >> i live downtown and i said let's do this. >> woody'seply paid off. next thing you know, he was at coors field hanging out with the newly acquired ace of the pitching staff. >> he said how do you like being at coors? he said this is the first time i've been at coors. he was as new to the facility as i was. we walked out to the field, each had our gloves and ball and played catch. >> they tossed the ball around and talked for about half an hour. as you can see, the 21-year-old is an amputee, he lost his leg to cancers, a fight heat been waging about five years. >> you think it would be the worst thing in the world. but it hasn't been as bad as i expected. >> that positive attitude is exactly why woody took a chance answering a tweet. he got a day and a souvenir he'll never forget. oh, but playing catch with jeremy guthrie was actually the second best part of a very good day. >> this morning i went to my doctors. they checked my counts and independent back up and i'm officiallyon