Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Ouch.

Watching Bryan Mitchell get hit in the head last night was scary, but not as scary as when A-Rod crushed an Indian pitcher's head back in 2010:
Alex Rodriguez wasn't available to the media following Saturday's game because he attempted to visit Indians pitcher David Huff in the hospital. But A-Rod, whose third-inning line drive drilled Huff on the side of the head, said the two chatted for about 10 minutes on the phone Saturday night instead. 
"We spoke for five or 10 minutes and he's just a really nice guy and he thought the results were good and we'll wait and see." Asked what the scariest part of the incident was, Rodriguez added: "The kid laid there, David laid there, for what seemed like 30 minutes, even though it was really like three or four minutes. That made it more scary. The one thing is there are 55,000 people here and only one person knows how hard you hit a guy. A lot of times you hit it back up the box and you hit it off the end  or get jammed a little, but that one was really flush."

A-Rod also said that Huff joked with him, "I was going to come find you in batting practice (Sunday) and ask you if that's your best shot, is that all you got? My answer would've been yeah, that's all I got."
Also, whenever this happens I ask how the hell this doesn't happen ALL THE DAMN TIME.

Luckily it turns out Mitchell has a hairline nasal fracture and (hopefully) no concussion.


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