Posted on 07/26/2005 5:28:28 PM PDT by CarlEOlsoniii
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For any Boston Sox Fan Freepers (and I know there are some)please pray for Matt Clement. If you are watching the game, he was just incredibly hit by a hit ball in the head on the mound. He lied on the mound for at least five minutes, motionless. The most shocking moment I have seen in sports. Please pray
Right on the front. It was hit by the TB player so hard that once it hit him it bounced off him and continued to fly into the deep outfield.
Accept prayers from Tampa Bay!
What?
The ball made it to the outfield?
That's NOT good.
Tony C. was hit by a pitched ball. This could be much worse...no helmet and ball potentially travelling much faster.
Thank God the hospital is just afew blocks away. Quick check in.
There was movement but very, very little...he was probably as close as one could come to be completely knocked out...Right on the right side of the head.
Payers for him...
Please reach out and save this fine young athlete, and spare him from serious injury. Speed his healing and comfort his family at this traumatic time.
Amen.
Can I ask an indelicate question as I send further prayers for the player?
After the ball careened off of his head, it was still a fair ball and live play, right? Did he lay there while the play ensued or was help sent to the mound immediately?
Trot Nixon...No report..
uh, film at eleven? Jeez, get a grip
Red Sox pitcher Clement leaves field on a stretcher
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Boston Red Sox pitcher Matt Clement was hit in the right side of the head by Carl Crawford's line drive Tuesday night and carried from the field on a stretcher.Clement remained on the ground and barely moved for about five minutes before he was lifted onto a stretcher and immobilized with a neck brace. Replays showed the force of Crawford's liner knocked the All-Star pitcher completely off his feet.
The ball caromed off the back of Clement's head just behind his ear into short left field for an RBI single. Chad Bradford replaced Clement with Boston leading the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 5-1.
Prayers going out for him. What a horrible thing.
Just behind the ear? Wow. That is NOT a good place to be hit.
No. Last year, Clement was a Chicago Cub.
Ball in play...laid until play over, immediate help was sent out to the mound.
I just saw the replay on local TV here in Boston. The ball appeared to strike Clement in the side of the head. No doubt the ball was travelling well in excess of 100mph. The ball looked like a laser beam in the replay. It's just amazing to me that this kind of thing doesn't happen more often than it does. Hope he's okay.
No, the Red Sox signed Clement this season as a free agent. But, with Curt Schilling hurt, Clement was their ace. Losing him hurts them tremendously. If they have lost Trot Nixon as well, it is downright catastrophic.
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