Tampa Bays Rays Pitcher Hunter Bigge Hit In Face By 105 MPH Foul Ball

Scary scene at Thursday’s Tampa Bay Rays sport … considered one of their pitchers, Hunter Bigge, took a line drive foul ball to the face whereas he was within the dugout — resulting in him being carted off the sphere.

All of it went down throughout the prime of the seventh inning. Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman turned on a 3-2 pitch (he was means forward of it) from Connor Seabold, sending the baseball instantly at Bigge’s face at 105 MPH, knocking him off his toes.

Ruthschman and Gunnar Henderson, who was within the on-deck circle, instantly reacted to the scary state of affairs. The printed caught followers and gamers on each side involved for the Harvard graduate as medical professionals tended to him.

Fortunately, as he was getting loaded onto the stretcher, Bigge gave the gang a thumbs-up earlier than being taken to an area hospital.

Throughout his postgame press convention, Rays supervisor Kevin Money said Bigge was coherent and speaking to the doctor — and that he can be monitored because the evening progressed.

“You are feeling for Hunter and his spouse,” Money mentioned. “I am unable to think about what she and he had been going by means of proper there. It was scary for everyone, none greater than them.”

Because the saying goes, the sport should go on … and that is precisely what occurred (although everybody’s ideas had been with HB). The Orioles received the sport 4-1 in opposition to their AL East rivals.