It sure looked like it hurt. Hopefully back at 100% in a few weeks Our depth will be tested in SEC play. Florida Gators outfielder Wyatt Langford, No. 3 MLB draft prospect, expected to miss weeks after surgery
Probably too personal to discuss in detail. Hopefully he has no issues having children and such. I'm speculating of course.
Gentlemen, please, some empathy for the man. All of us who have played competitive sports in our day have suffered a (nearly used a word that would have been misconstrued by some) a shot to our privates and that is no fun at all – walk it off and wait is all you can do. In Wyatt’s case, surgery likely means there was some serious hematoma or related. Wishing him a quick and full recovery.
Man, that sucks. Can’t believe he finished his at bat and went back in the field afterwards. I thought he’d be fine. Tough kid.
Ruptured testicle. Really tough kid to stay in the game. He went to the Dr today and will revisit in a week. It sucks, he had a chance for player of the year without the injury. Hopefully Cags can bring it home.
When I was a student in Calif we had a LHP who was a potential first-rounder. He got drilled in his sensitive area by a line drive. His girlfriend was a sorority sister of some of my friends, and said he was swollen up like grapefruit. The sad thing was that he became somewhat gun shy, and never made it professionally
To old folks.......Herb Score, ace lefty for Cleveland Indians. Line drive to face. Never could pitch again.
Can’t remember who hit the ball but IIRC it was a fairly well known player. Score was a play-by-play announcer for Cleveland for a long time
in 1957 Gil McDougal hit the line drive into Score's face. Score came back from that injury and pitched until 1962, saying it was a torn arm tendon that hampered his pitching, not fear. "On May 7, 1957, during the first inning of a night game against the New York Yankees at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Score threw a low fastball to Gil McDougald with Jim Hegan catching. McDougald lined the pitch to the mound and struck Score in the face, breaking Score's facial bones and injuring his eye. The ball caromed to third baseman Al Smith, who threw McDougald out before he rushed to the pitching mound to aid Score. McDougald, seeing Score hit by the baseball and then lying down and injured, also ran immediately to the pitching mound, instead of first base, to help Score. McDougald reportedly vowed to retire if Score permanently lost his sight in one eye as a result of the accident. Score eventually recovered his 20/20 vision, though he missed the rest of the season. He returned early in the 1958 season.[4] Though many believe he feared being hit by another batted ball, and thus changed his pitching motion, Score rejected that theory. Score would tell Cleveland sportswriter Terry Pluto (for The Curse of Rocky Colavito) that, in 1958, after pitching and winning a few games and feeling better than he'd felt in a long time, he tore a tendon in his arm while pitching on a damp night against the Washington Senators and sat out the rest of the season. In 1959, he shifted his pitching motion in a bid to avoid another, similar injury. "The reason my motion changed", Score told Pluto, "was because I hurt my elbow, and I overcompensated for it and ended up with some bad habits." As a result of the changes Score made in his pitching delivery, his velocity dropped and he incurred further injuries. Score pitched the full 1959 season, going 9–11 with a 4.71 earned run average and 147 strikeouts.[5] In the book The Greatest Team Of All Time (Bob Adams, Inc, publisher. 1994), Mickey Mantle picked Score as the toughest American League left-handed pitcher he faced (before the injury). Yogi Berra picked Score for his "Greatest Team Of All Time". Chicago White Sox (1960–1962)[edit] Score was traded to the Chicago White Sox by Cleveland on April 18, 1960 for pitcher Barry Latman.[7] Score's roommate, Colavito, was traded to the Detroit Tigers the previous day.[3] Score was reunited on the Chicago team with some former Indians players and manager Al Lopez.[4] Score pitched parts of the following three seasons before retiring. He finished with a major league career record of 55–46, a 3.36 earned run average, and 837 strikeouts over eight seasons in 8581⁄3 innings pitched.[5]"
He lost his eye to this. We had a LHP (on the freshman squad) at FSU while I was there that also lost his eye the same way. He was throwing pre-game BP because we were facing a lefty that night. Herb Score actually called him and spent some time on the phone with him.
