Batter Up! Watch Johnny Knoxville’s Son Give the ‘Jackass’ Star Some Serious Chin Music on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Video)

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As Reggie Jackson said, it’s that time of year when “they change the baseball to a golf ball, the game gets faster, speeds up, the mound closer, the walls close in, lights get brighter, the lamps hotter.”And so it was that Knoxville brought his son on to “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to show the world what he has.“Johnny, we have spared no expense to create this uhh, this baseball-type situation in our alley, here,” Kimmel said during the segment for Monday night’s show.

As Kimmel explained, Knoxville’s son Rocco joined the show to pitch to his father in a makeshift batting cage behind the Hollywood studio of Kimmel’s show.

Makeshift translates here as open-air with an existing parking-lot fence on one side, a brick wall on the other, batting pitcher’s screen to protect Rocco and a small backstop behind Kimmel, the bat-wielding Knoxville and an umpire.Luckily for all involved, Knoxville did not wield the bat with an expert’s touch.“Johnny’s son Rocco is a 12-year-old pitcher,” Kimmel said before the at-bat kicked off. “He’s got quite an arm.”Kimmel compared the situation to when a father realizes his son can outdo him in a certain skill or feat or “beat me up, but also strike me out.

So we want to see if Rocco can strike his dad out.”“We may be at that day,” replied Knoxville, who at 51 and 6-foot-1 did not appear to be much taller than his son.“I want to say before we start this, the sun is in my eyes,” Knoxville said, pointing down the alley, before joking, “My son is in my eyes.”For Knoxville’s sake, he appeared to have his eyes closed — the one time he swung.