- May 27, 2013
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About 7 years ago when I helped coach our LL All-Star team, the girls were doing BP and I filled in as SS (where I always would go). These were 11-y/o girls hitting front-toss. Girl hits the ball, I go down to field it, ball takes a bad hop and nails me right in the eye socket. An X-ray and CT scan later, I’m diagnosed with a fractured zygoma. Explaining the black eye to my patients that week was a little embarrassing.
Luckily, this came off the bat of a small 11 y/o and not a high-level 18U player! I would have been done. You never know what can happen - I never could have seen that hop coming - apparently there was a large pebble it hit just right.
Sure, it’s nice to have your full face showing in those local newspaper photos or on TV as a player, but is it truly worth a possible disabling or disfiguring injury?
Luckily, this came off the bat of a small 11 y/o and not a high-level 18U player! I would have been done. You never know what can happen - I never could have seen that hop coming - apparently there was a large pebble it hit just right.
Sure, it’s nice to have your full face showing in those local newspaper photos or on TV as a player, but is it truly worth a possible disabling or disfiguring injury?