A scary scene occurred throughout Thursday’s sport between the Baltimore Orioles and the Tampa Bay Rays when Rays reliever Hunter Bigge was struck within the face by a foul ball and needed to be carted off the sector.
Bigge spent the evening in a Tampa-area hospital however is anticipated to be okay.
Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman stepped to the plate within the seventh inning, with Rays pitcher Connor Seabold on the mound. Rutschman labored the rely full earlier than fouling off a pitch that went straight into the Rays’ dugout — with a reported exit velocity of 105.1 mph (effectively above what MLB qualifies as “onerous hit”).
Bigge is presently on the injured record with a lat pressure, so he was within the Rays’ dugout, leaning on the railing, somewhat than down within the bullpen. The foul ball struck him within the face and knocked him backwards. As MLB.com’s Adam Berry writes, the crew’s power and conditioning coach, Steve Chase, was “proper there” to catch him.
Bigge by no means misplaced consciousness, however was nonetheless transported to an area hospital to be checked out.
It was a second that visibly shook the gamers on each groups. Rustchman and Seabold’s reactions could be seen instantly on the printed, whereas many of the different Rays gamers within the subject have been equally involved. The sport was delayed a number of minutes whereas the crew’s coaching employees attended to Bigge.
