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OT - minor league coach loses eye after hit by line drive
Mark Peters, Photographer
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Highland | IL | USA | Posted: 9:12 PM on 03.16.11 |
->> With baseball season upon us, just a reminder to be safe:
"Atlanta Braves minor league manager Luis Salazar has lost an eye after he was struck in the face by a line drive while watching a spring training game."
http://www.abc6.com/Global/story.asp?S=14262863 |
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Alex Menendez, Photographer
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Orlando | FL | USA | Posted: 9:46 PM on 03.16.11 |
->> Been in the news here for the past few days...I shot the Astros/Nationals game today and it is hard to see the foul balls when you are shooting with a 400 on a cropped body.
Scary for sure....I hope he recovers quickly.
Alex |
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Danny Munson, Photographer
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San Dimas | Ca | United States | Posted: 9:59 PM on 03.16.11 |
| ->> I already had a near miss at my second LL game. Baseball scares me. |
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Joshua Brown, Photographer
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Raeford | NC | USA | Posted: 5:12 AM on 03.17.11 |
| ->> I was shooting a minor league game at the end of the dugout on the first base line. A foul ball came screaming down the line and I couldn't find it until it hit the metal wall about 8 feet to my left. It could as just as easily been me. Everyone keep safe out there. |
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Mike Janes, Photographer
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Attica | NY | USA | Posted: 8:51 AM on 03.17.11 |
->> I got hit by a line drive to the chest last year, saw it off the bat and tried to move but just couldn't fast enough, this after busting up my knuckle the year before in the same type situation at a different park. Each time I was behind protection, it just came that quick and found a hole, have to be safe out there.
It has made me wonder more than a few times how some of these parks still don't have fences in front of their dugouts and photo wells, or if they do they're smaller and do not protect the entire dugout. Also, how if they do have the fence how they let players/coaches hang over top of them, or sit in the opening on the steps helpless to move from a screamer, making the fence useless.
Of course then you look down the line and notice most parks in the U.S. do not have protection for fans at all, makes you wonder how long before we're reading an article on a fan killed or severely injured by a line drive. |
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Pat Lovell, Photographer
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Bloomington | IN | US | Posted: 10:05 AM on 03.17.11 |
->> Ouch, that's bad news.
I got nailed in the stomach last year by a screaming line drive down the third base line by Erik Kratz of the Indy Indians. I didn't see it coming at all, I realized when the batter's eyes were looking directly into my lens that I was in trouble.
The TV people had fun joking about it and I had a huge bruise for a week or so however, I did print the image of him looking at me when the ball hit and he signed it for me. LOL |
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