[baldgriff]

Originally Posted by CelticNHBlue

I would like to hear some horror stories of long and/or painful games to make me feel better. I worked a HS game last week, 1-0 in about 70 minutes (no, that is not the bad one). The next night, 14 innings, no tie breaker, and 3 hours. One pitcher threw rather hard and her catcher just wasn't quite of the same caliber. One off the foot and shin guard (money well spent), one off the left thigh/belly/left wrist, one off the right wrist, and, to top it off, a foul ball off the catcher's foot that came up, under my mask and hit me under the jaw. That one rattled my teeth a little, literally. Someone please ease my pain with something worse...

Here you go:
Last year - Doing Mens Slow Pitch. Catcher crouches behind plate starts to loose his balance as the pitcher is starting to deliver. Catcher hops and throws arms out to regain balance. Pitcher releases ball. Catchers elbow catches me square in the nether regions and I go down. Batter hits ball. Dont know what happened. Never saw the ball get hit or where it went. Fortunately there was no play that I needed to call as my kidneys were spasming during the play.