Nutmeg Struck By Fly Ball To Center Field

14 June 2010 | NN

[NautiNurse]

Right handed Red Sox 3rd baseman Adrian Beltre hit one out of Fenway Park Friday afternoon, striking Nutmeg squarely on the forearm. X-rays revealed a fractured radius. Nutmeg is in good spirits today.

Beltre, with a .335 average and 44 RBI in 2010, was unavailable for comment.

Adrian Beltre	Nutmeg

[warsaw44]

Back when I used to go to Fenway all the time I saw all kinds of foul balls end up in the stands. Many were line drives.

One ball hit a man square in the head, the trajectory of the ball changed slightly and kept going. He was taken out of the park on a stretcher.

The only time the ball came near my seats in such a fashion I dove out of the way. No way would I try to bare hand catch such a hit! It happened so fast by the time I looked up there was already a pile of people trying to grab the ball.

But I suspect Nutmeg chugged a wicked lot of beah, was wicked plasted and dint see da ball comin’ up da pike!

[nutmeg]

Vuvuzela: The ancient, traditional, injection-molded polystyrene horn of the Zulu people.--Wideawake

ROTFLOL!! What a GREAT tagline... and SO true, huh?

"Ancient and traditional"... yeah, right. ;-D

[Robert A Cook PE]

EMT broken arm ping!

[rmlew]

Glad to read that you’re doing better. I’m never going to a game with you, though. (And it’s not just because I’m a Yankees fan!) I was knocked unconscious as a kid by a flying bat. (To be fair I was catcher. My mom may still have the broken helmet.) I don’t feel like risking a ball as a spectator.

[rlmorel]

Hey Nutmeg, glad to hear you are doing well...stay away from those line drives!

[rlmorel]

Hey Nutmeg, glad to hear you are doing well...stay away from those line drives!

[La Enchiladita]

Silly me. I could have at least read the titles on your links. I claim to have been speed-FReeping as usual, ma’am:)

[La Enchiladita]

One of my neighbors pitched a ball right into the middle of my forehead, when we were kids. Didn’t affect me at all.... hehehehhahahaha.

[GOPsterinMA]

I propose a new screen name for you: “FoulTip”.

[Man50D]

OMG, what a story... Denard Span hits his own mother! And in the chest, no less... yikes. Thank God she is alright.

Span struck out. I wonder why?

Yes, some of these ball-hit incidents do take place in a "shocking split-second", or even outside of the ballpark (see my post 163 above).

Approximately 25 years ago, maybe more, a Red Sox batter hit a screaming line drive into the stands along the first base line. The ball hit a little boy in the head. Blood was streaming down his head and the kid was screaming. The father was stunned. Jim Rice jumped into the stands scooped up the kid and sprinted into the the Red Sox training room with the team trainer right behind. The kid was eventually OK. He was interviewed years later while a teenager in college.

I was also at a UConn baseball game this spring at Storrs. A young mother and her infant child were playing in a sand trap adjacent to a putting green about 30 feet from a fence parallel to the first base foul line. I thought she is oblivious to what was happening at the plate. Sure enough the Rutgers batter hits a foul ball over the fence, bouncing twice before grazing the little girl's arm. Fortunately she only had a surprised look on her face and the mother had no idea what happened. The father was a few feet away and let them continue playing in the sand trap. I just shook my head.

[Man50D]

Didn’t affect me at all.... hehehehhahahaha.

What about the ball?

[GailA]

I know first hand how dangerous they are. Nearly was beaned in the head in the stands twice last year. Fortunately some college kid who played college ball caught the first 1, some one else caught the second one.

[LucyJo]

Best wishes for quick healing and recovery.

The least he could do is autograph the cast! : )

[silent_jonny]

Great news! Sounds like the Red Sox folks went out of their way to make sure you were doing okay. Prayers that the scar disappears, your arm heals fully and you get the ball signed by Beltre :)

[ThomasThomas]

So have you been thought a metal detector at the airport yet?

[Richard Kimball]

I'm glad you're healing.

I only go up to college sports level, and all the baseball and softball game I shoot have netting and fencing set up to where it's almost impossible to get hit, except maybe by a foul that pops up, over the fence and comes straight down.

As fast as the action in football is, and I've had to dodge a few players coming out of bounds, in baseball, that mesh has saved me several times. The ball comes so fast that I generally haven't even registered that it's coming at me when it hits the mesh.

[Bigg Red]

Glad to know you’re on the mend, FRiend. Thanks for the update.

[Bigg Red]

Glad to know you’re on the mend, FRiend. Thanks for the update.

[Miss Didi]

Sending you get well wishes, dearest Nutmeg!

[gimme1ibertee]

Best wishes!