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Aroldis Chapman Hit in Face with Line Drive

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That looked horrible.

 

Out 6-8 for sure. My guess is that he's not back in MLB games till after the all-star break.

 

I'm just glad the dude is alive.

I can't believe he didn't lose any consciousness during the ordeal. I just can't imagine the amount of pain involved with that. Yikes.

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That looked horrible.

 

Out 6-8 for sure. My guess is that he's not back in MLB games till after the all-star break.

 

I'm just glad the dude is alive.

I can't believe he didn't lose any consciousness during the ordeal. I just can't imagine the amount of pain involved with that. Yikes.

 

I would imagine his entire face went numb for quite a while before any pain set in

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That looked horrible.

 

Out 6-8 for sure. My guess is that he's not back in MLB games till after the all-star break.

 

I'm just glad the dude is alive.

I can't believe he didn't lose any consciousness during the ordeal. I just can't imagine the amount of pain involved with that. Yikes.

 

I would imagine his entire face went numb for quite a while before any pain set in

As someone who was hit in the eye by a line drive I can tell you that there is no numbness only pain and fear, but mostly pain.

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Back in 1998 I had my 3 fractures on the right side of my face. To this day I still get squeamish about getting hit by anything on that side. I can't imagine playing baseball without thinking about it constantly. Tony Canigliaro syndrome.
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That looked horrible.

 

Out 6-8 for sure. My guess is that he's not back in MLB games till after the all-star break.

 

I'm just glad the dude is alive.

I can't believe he didn't lose any consciousness during the ordeal. I just can't imagine the amount of pain involved with that. Yikes.

 

I would imagine his entire face went numb for quite a while before any pain set in

As someone who was hit in the eye by a line drive I can tell you that there is no numbness only pain and fear, but mostly pain.

 

 

Yep. I took a low 90's fastball to the face in HS. My reaction was almost identical to Chapman's, as were my injuries. Compared to the heart attack, being shot and grenade fragments...it's still the worst pain I've experienced. It felt like my face had exploded.

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That looked horrible.

 

Out 6-8 for sure. My guess is that he's not back in MLB games till after the all-star break.

 

I'm just glad the dude is alive.

I can't believe he didn't lose any consciousness during the ordeal. I just can't imagine the amount of pain involved with that. Yikes.

 

I would imagine his entire face went numb for quite a while before any pain set in

As someone who was hit in the eye by a line drive I can tell you that there is no numbness only pain and fear, but mostly pain.

 

 

Yep. I took a low 90's fastball to the face in HS. My reaction was almost identical to Chapman's, as were my injuries. Compared to the heart attack, being shot and grenade fragments...it's still the worst pain I've experienced. It felt like my face had exploded.

 

Jesus. Remind me not to ever stand anywhere near you.

 

 

That is to say, wow. You've dodged (er?) a lot of bullets.

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As someone who was hit in the eye by a line drive I can tell you that there is no numbness only pain and fear, but mostly pain.

 

 

Yep. I took a low 90's fastball to the face in HS. My reaction was almost identical to Chapman's, as were my injuries. Compared to the heart attack, being shot and grenade fragments...it's still the worst pain I've experienced. It felt like my face had exploded.

 

Jesus. Remind me not to ever stand anywhere near you.

 

 

That is to say, wow. You've dodged (er?) a lot of bullets.

 

 

Being in Iraq twice (15 years apart) helped with a couple of those, a through and through in my right shoulder and an RPG blast that put a few fragments in my left leg/hip. Having a horrible family history with heart attacks, about 12 members of my dad's side of the family had one before they were 60 and four of them died, helped with the other.

 

As for the face, a kid in our conference threw really, really hard but had no control of it. A fastball tailed into me and I didn't recognize it in time. It broke the orbit around my right eye, kind of smashed my cheekbone, broke my upper right jaw and actually caused a bit of damage near my ear. No scars, but you can still see there's something off as they didn't quite put me back together right. My eye is now a little different and my ear is about 1/8-1/4 inch lower than it used to be. I ended up having a similar problem to Olt, my tear duct wouldn't work right and my vision was blurry, but they both cleared up by the next season.

 

I don't freak if I hear loud noises, but I do freak if something flies past my face and I didn't know it was coming. Been deployed twice and the only PTSD I have is from a [expletive] baseball hitting me in the face when I was 16.

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I'm a big enough wuss that just seeing people get hit by baseballs in the head made me stop playing. I was at the game where Dawson got beaned in the face, and that terrified me as a kid and I remember it being REAL hard to get back into the batter's box after that. I kept playing, though a kid right ahead of me in the lineup got nailed and concussed and then a couple years later a friend of mine was pitching and took a line drive right back into his teeth and the carnage of that kinda broke me.
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One of the reasons I gave up pitching when I was in HS was almost getting my head taken off twice, that latter of which took the cap off of my head and left an abrasion on my temple. I needed my brain intact more than I needed to be a mediocre HS pitcher, and I didn't need to take a liner flush to realize that.
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I was at the game where Dawson got beaned in the face.

I still have that SI with that picture and "BEANBALL" as the headline. That's the first game I watched where I even thought about getting hit like that in the batter's box.

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I was wearing glasses and the dr said the only thing that saved my eye was the glassss taking some of the impact. I thought my eye was gone there was so much blood.
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Sounds ugly. Definitely wouldn't want anything near my eyes.

 

I have a doozy of a scar on my lip from getting hit in the face by a line drive. Lefty was bunting in an obvious bunt situation, I was coming in from first, and he slapped it right at me. I was able to get my glove on it a bit which slowed it down somewhat but the deflection nailed my mouth. Multiple stitches.

 

I'm glad college has those composite bats now. The old bats that had such a huge trampoline effect were terrifying for fielders and pitchers.

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