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What we're forgetting here is where, exactly, this guy got hit. If he was really hurt, he may not have been thinking straight, and just walked off the field without ejecting folks.
My son was 17, when played his last game as a catcher. Two out in the last inning, and he leaned over to glove an outside curveball. The batter nicked it, and it glanced off his neck.
He stood up, and proceded to remove all his gear, and placed it nicely on the plate. Then, he sat beside me on the dugout bench.
"What's up?"
"I'm done."
"Jimmy, go get the gear one"
We figure the blow shut off the blood flow to his brain for a bit. He got checked out that evening, and everything was fine. But baseballs to the body can make folks to funny things.
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