Unconscious. Some remember his uniform smoldering. Emotionally stunned, the stadium held its breath. And then came what can only be called a miracle.
"However in two or three minutes, he woke up and he was in a sitting position. Then he stood up," Longert said.
Applause rippled through the ballpark. "HE'S ALIVE," came shouts from throughout League Park.
His teammates tried to walk him to the clubhouse.
But Caldwell barked "Heck no!" or something like that. "He said, 'Gimme the ball and point me to the direction of home plate.'" In today's world, a game would not resume with lightning in the area and certainly not for a player who had been struck by lightning. But in 1919, the game went on.
So did Ray Caldwell, who went all nine innings. And he won.