Posted on 04/21/2014 5:19:34 PM PDT by kingattax
After taking a 90 mph fastball to the face during a Friday game, Houston Astros prospect Delino DeShields Jr. showed off his injuries online this weekend — and they’re not pretty.
The minor league center fielder was struck by the ball on the right side of his face during a game in Frisco, Texas. Miraculously he managed to walk off the field after sustaining the blow.
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I’m just guessing it was around 90 mph, but I threw it all the way from deep left field directly to home plate to prevent a run from coming in. It was a line drive like you’d hit with a bat, surprising everyone including myself. I did use to pump some iron. It knocked the glove off the catcher’s hand, two runs went in, and we lost the game.
Didn’t Johnson get fined for that?
oh my!!!
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Reminds me of Tony Conigliaro
Some of my neighbors, two brothers, as a kid were a tad older and pitched ball. I was accurate in a snowball fight, and I could put some heat on them, but getting hit with a snowball by the older brother was like being shot...
remember that spring(forgot what year)when two kids were killed by either a line drive or a pitch.so sad.(it was a few weeks apart)
well remember the goalie who almost died?that has to be the most gruesome sports accident.getting within a fraction of an inch from getting your jugular cut.God must of been right there on the ice.
Tony C. 1967, tragic figure. Died young.
One of them was a pitch, hit him in the chest and stopped his heart. While playing outfield in Little League I was in fact hit in the middle of the chest by a line drive when I ran to catch it. I guess sometimes it will kill, sometimes it won’t. I’m glad it didn’t in my case but too bad for the other kid. Baseball is not without danger because of that hardball flying around.
what i recall when i heard one of the incidents was that it was either the runner or basemen who got nailed by a line drive,i think it hit the runner on first base,some minor league game.,it was just a heartbreaker that these two stories made the news around 2/3 weeks apart.
I remember that one.... it was stomach churning
I don’t think so.
It was a complete freak accident.
After the water balloon fight I can safely say none of us were accurate
The case of a pitcher getting hit by a batted ball that I think is the most famous is Herb Score by Gil McDougald in 1957. It was a bad injury. Score was an outstanding young pitcher up til then, but was only mediocre afterwards.
I think Jerry Coleman was there as a Yankee player. I once wrote him a letter about something he said on a broadcast, and I mentioned the Score incident. He wrote me back, but didn't mention Score.
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