April 16, 2015

Head Shot

William Wienbaum talks to a number of pitchers who took a batted ball to the head in the wake of Carlos Carrasco getting hit. Here are Willie Blair and Bryce Florie:

On Sept. 8, 2000, Florie gushed blood after taking a liner off the bat of the Yankees’ Ryan Thompson that shattered bones in his face and did irreparable damage to the vision in his right eye. His career was never the same.

“To this day,” Florie said Wednesday, “I can see that ball come within an inch of my glove, and the next thing I know, I’m on my back and my life’s changed forever.”

Blair’s recollection is eerily similar to Florie’s: “I saw it briefly, I tried to get my glove up, lost sight of the ball, turned my head and it hit me.”

I’m glad Carrasco came out relatively unscathed.

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