Aroldis Chapman Hit in Face with Line Drive

[mul21]

are those tears?

 

is he crying?

 

His tear ducts are probably jacked up like Olt's were and other people in this thread have mentioned.

[Guest]

are those tears?

 

is he crying?

 

His tear ducts are probably jacked up like Olt's were and other people in this thread have mentioned.

 

I think he was going for something else there.

[treebird]

i played baseball through high school and never really got drilled in an organized game, but one time i was playing baseball in an empty lot with my friends when i was like 10 and i took a line drive to the face. i was pitching and the guy hit the ball straight back at me. i remember that it knocked me unconscious for a moment, but i don't see how that could be possible given that chapman got hit by a ball moving a thousand times faster and didn't go out. the ball hit me right above the lip and busted me up pretty good. the first thing i remember thinking once i realized what was going on was the it probably busted my teeth so i immediately started putting my hands in my mouth to see if they were all there like a crazy person.

[mul21]

are those tears?

 

is he crying?

 

His tear ducts are probably jacked up like Olt's were and other people in this thread have mentioned.

 

I think he was going for something else there.

 

Ah, yes, got it on a second read....

[Sammy Sofa]

i played baseball through high school and never really got drilled in an organized game, but one time i was playing baseball in an empty lot with my friends when i was like 10 and i took a line drive to the face. i was pitching and the guy hit the ball straight back at me. i remember that it knocked me unconscious for a moment, but i don't see how that could be possible given that chapman got hit by a ball moving a thousand times faster and didn't go out. the ball hit me right above the lip and busted me up pretty good. the first thing i remember thinking once i realized what was going on was the it probably busted my teeth so i immediately started putting my hands in my mouth to see if they were all there like a crazy person.

 

My friend that took the line drive to the face while pitching didn't have any teeth knocked out; I have no idea how given how hard he was rocked. His lip was definitely shredded, though, and there was so much [expletive] blood. His whole lower half of his face his neck and the front of his shirt were soaked, so we figured his teeth were knocked out, but they were just weirdly pushed inwards. Definitely had to have some dental surgery.

 

The saddest part was the kid that hit the line drive, Andre, had kind of a bad rep; I was living on a government base at the time and, let's face it, there weren't a ton of black families there, so the black kids we hung around with often unfairly got tagged as being bad kids, and he was definitely someone along those lines. The mom of the kid who got hit was just screaming at Andre like he had done it on purpose, and Andre the whole time just had a look on his face like he was crushed and horrified at what happened; basically there was zero chance had had intentionally done it and afterward he was actually crying because of what the other kid's mom had been saying. I really liked him and it pissed me off how parents acted like he was trouble seemingly just because he was black, but then I found out years later after we had moved apart he did fall in with a really bad crowd and ended up going to prison for life for killing a store owner in a robbery. It's a really sad ending for someone who when I think about him the memory that usually leaps to mind was how wrecked he was over that baseball incident.

Edited March 22, 2014 by Sammy Sofa

[J.R.]

Broken jaw here. Kid pitcher hated me for some reason and threw at my face.

[Guest]

i played baseball through high school and never really got drilled in an organized game, but one time i was playing baseball in an empty lot with my friends when i was like 10 and i took a line drive to the face. i was pitching and the guy hit the ball straight back at me. i remember that it knocked me unconscious for a moment, but i don't see how that could be possible given that chapman got hit by a ball moving a thousand times faster and didn't go out. the ball hit me right above the lip and busted me up pretty good. the first thing i remember thinking once i realized what was going on was the it probably busted my teeth so i immediately started putting my hands in my mouth to see if they were all there like a crazy person.

 

My friend that took the line drive to the face while pitching didn't have any teeth knocked out; I have no idea how given how hard he was rocked. His lip was definitely shredded, though, and there was so much [expletive] blood. His whole lower half of his face his neck and the front of his shirt were soaked, so we figured his teeth were knocked out, but they were just weirdly pushed inwards. Definitely had to have some dental surgery.

 

The saddest part was the kid that hit the line drive, Andre, had kind of a bad rep; I was living on a government base at the time and, let's face it, there weren't a ton of black families there, so the black kids we hung around with often unfairly got tagged as being bad kids, and he was definitely someone along those lines. The mom of the kid who got hit was just screaming at Andre like he had done it on purpose, and Andre the whole time just had a look on his face like he was crushed and horrified at what happened; basically there was zero chance had had intentionally done it and afterward he was actually crying because of what the other kid's mom had been saying. I really liked him and it pissed me off how parents acted like he was trouble seemingly just because he was black, but then I found out years later after we had moved apart he did fall in with a really bad crowd and ended up going to prison for life for killing a store owner in a robbery. It's a really sad ending for someone who when I think about him the memory the usually leaps to mind was how wrecked he was over that baseball incident.

 

Well this is just gut/heart wrenching.