Posted on 05/30/2019 6:45:12 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Sports Talk 790 in Houston tweeted that the child was awake, responsive and taken to the hospital for precautionary reasons. Best of all, the girl is expected to be fine, the station said.
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This incident has brought back calls to add more fencing at ballparks.
They need more netting along the foul lines. Reason: today’s MLB players can hit line drive foul balls into the stands with the impact force of a small caliber pistol bullet, especially now with supposedly more “bouncy” baseballs now used.
Watched it, LIVE.
Very scary....Almora was understandibly shaken....as was the entire stadium.
The news we’re hearing is good....that the child was taken to hospital for precautionary check....and appears to be doing fine.
Prayers continuing.
The ball went over the safety net...with great speed.
Screens now extend past 1st and 3rd base, or beyond the dugout, whichever is farther.
“As soon as I hit it, the first person I locked eyes on was her,” Almora said. “With God willing, I’ll be able to have a relationship with this little girl for the rest of my life. But just prayers right now, and that’s all I really can control. I’m speechless. I’m at loss of words. Being a father of two boys, I want to put a net all around the stadium.”
We demand foam-rubber baseballs!
Devastated is more like it.
Two simple words: situational awareness. In the case of a child, it falls upon the adult guardians. In the typical MLB stadium scenario, the adults are all ginned up on their phones, popcorn, hot doggies and brewskies.
Glad she is ok and nice to see players still care about more than $$.
They just extended the netting prior to last season.
Are we going to enclose the entire seating area now?
There was blood everywhere.
But when the guy left for treatment, he actually walked away on his own.
As much as I enjoyed taking my family to the ballpark (Kingdome and Safeco) to watch a Mariners game (1990’s through 2002), I always had a much better time by myself because I wasn’t distracted by them and could keep my eyes focused on the field. But even then I was always at the ready to keep them safe in the event a foul ball.
Albert Almora’s, Jr., is a real class act... true feelings and emotions on display... nice support from Cub’s manager and teammates. Prayers for the little girl.
That incident last night reminded me of Herb Score getting blinded by a line drive by Gil McDougal in 1958, I believe. McDougal retired from baseball after that. Herb Score could have been one of the great pitchers of the 50’s and 60’s.
Major League baseballs have an average mass of 5.125 ounces, and a 90-mph fastball can leave the bat at 110 mph. Extrapolating Newton’s second law of motion, Russell determined that, in a collision lasting less than one-thousandth of a second, the average pro swing imparts 4145 pounds of force to the ball.
Baseball Physics: Anatomy of a Home Run - Popular Mechanics
https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/sports/a4569/4216783/
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