Lets hear it...whats the WORST injury you've recieved? or seen a partner recieve while in the field?

The topic was brought to mind because in the past week, I got hit by a batted ball, slammed my finger in the car door, and sprained my ankle trying to steal 2nd...

Well, I got hit on top of head with a foul tip. Didn't hurt, got the hard spot. I've since learned not to duck! Haven't seen any umpire injuries, but some nasty ones to some players. Hate seeing kids get hurt while trying to have fun, but it happens.

On the ball field?? Or riding motorcycles or just at work????

Hairline fracture from a foul on my left wrist, busted lip from a hard foul off my mask(bent the lower "horsshoe bou 1/2 in inward), and lastly, gnarly bruise right on the left side of upper belly(just below protector)last weekend.

Getting hit is not that bad, the ones that creep up the back of the leg, no biggie. My worst cup-shots came as a player. I use an extended single-bar mask and my chest protector tucks nicely under it, so none of the nasty throat shots(which are usually due to "head-poppin"). Oh, I did get a big toe smashed in a 10 year olds game, buy some plate shoes!!!!!

Partner in C position couldn't get out of the way of a hard liner. Blocked it with his arm. Finished the game in pain, ended up with a broken wrist.

Ed H

Hmm baseball

Worst i got was a bad hop at short that lifted my kneecap.

Couple of weeks ago I was umping a softball game and two girls butted heads in the outfield not bad but blood all over and a few stitches. Previous years in this leagues theres been quite a few broken bones on the field.

The kids are sure trying though this year. I was doing a 10-
11 game tonight and a batter tossed his bat straight back after a hit. missed the catcher but caught me on the elbow.

John

Well last night I did a invitational champion ship for 9-10's and tonite did the championship for 11-12's.

Last night There was a runner comming home and I took my mask off and the catcher sidearms a hard throw that misses the pitchers glove and nails me in my eye...it is now really swollen and messed up...coaches have fun with that..."Are you sure you can see with that eye? That defineately wasn't a strike" haha

haha. Yeah I can imagine how much that wuold hurt. One day I was doing Pinto Level championship game (last year)...and the game already started at 9. So it was an hour behind. During PLayoffs there was no time limit, so im umpiring for like 2hours straight in one of the most boring leagues there is. After being fatiqued from the previous 3hour game, I decide to take off a shin guard! BAD MOVE!!!

It just took one good smack with a bat and I had those suckers on!

I put jock and cup over a pair of knit boxers.
Fit was tight enuff (<i>I never get hit anyway</i>).
Ow !
No more boxers for me.

NEAR MISS
 

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Colt game 4 years ago, I am in B on an ungrazed high school field, grass is at least 4 inches high(great for ground balls). Lefty smokes a mid section high liner right at me, I knew horizontal movement would be tricky in the rough, so I jumped and spread legs. I cleared ball by bout an inch(says pard). Thus, moral of the story....wear a cup, ALWAYS!!!!

Grass is always greener !
 

Love the landscaping descriptions!

13 year old House League with the top 2 All-Star pitchers on each team and no Catchers. 2nd Inning All-Star ace throws heat down inner half of plate catchers ducks to the outer half. My middle finger takes ball right off it(there goes flipping the out dial on my counter). 6th inning other All-Star pitcher does the same thing to my index finger on the same hand only a little worse sending me to the hospital with two broken fingers. Worst thing was that the first pitcher was my younger brother.

WAR WOUNDS!
 

While working the dish, the catcher set up on the outside corner and the pitch came low and inside. The ball nicked the catcher's glove and caught the back of my left hand. My whole hand went numb and developed a huge knot covering the entire back of my hand. I could move my fingers and bend my wrist so I didn't think anything was broke. I had the hand Xrayed and nothing was broke. I've been living on Advil and using ice, after two weeks the knot is now down to 1/4" in height and about the size of a quarter in circumference.

Michael

Working the plate 2 years ago took a foul to the mask hit the right ear gaurd and spun the mask around on my head so it was facing backards on my head. That's the only time I've been hit so hard with a ball in my 30 yrs of umpiring.

Mr Childress,

the ONLY time you've gotted hit that hard in 30 yrs? Geez, I definately have ALOT to learn :) Though, im pretty sure I wont be challenging that record for pain-less games.

I've been hit plenty of times that was just the hardest I've been hit. Oh and by the way my dad is Mr. Childress please call me Doug

OWWWWW
 

last night atmy practise (i play shorstop) one of our best power hitters comes up to the plate. our coash is lobing them in there at 60 so he steps up WHAM shoots a ground ball right to me. Now our fiel has NO grass so nothing to slow it down. Im playing deep in the hole and our infile is pretty uneven i get in front of it as ive been instructed since t-ball. BAd bounce. Hits me square in the jaw. OWWWWWWWW. Knocked cold for couple minutes. whn i wake up i have a throbbing headache. ughhhhhhhhh gotta love baseball

State League Div 1 game, average AA Minors standard at the time, and I've got the dish. Pitcher is firing in the 85-90mph bracket. Don't know how, and didn't much care then, but one got through the catcher and banged me on the shin guard. I remember thinking, "<i>Hmmmm. That stung a mite more than it ought to with a decent pair of leg guards on!</i>" I finished the game without a problem.

When I hit the showers I removed the leg guard and noticed that the pitch had driven a rivet on the guard right back into my shin bone just below the knee! No biggee ... until 3-4 days later when I found the wound was infected with Cellulitis! I could barely hobble around and the pain was excruciating. Took 2 weeks of massive penicillin treatments - 3000mg per dose - to bring the leg back to normal. That Cellulitis is the most painful thing you can imagine. Doc said if it had gotten into the bone and taken hold it could have been a whole lot worse!! Glad I didn't have to find out how much!

Compared to that infection, all the banged wrists, monster bruises and foul tips in the side of the neck were just mosquito bites! *HUGE grin*

Cheers

I can almost top that one.....not proud, though.
 

3 yrs. ago, I'm BU in a Sr. League (15-16) baseball game. 1st batter gets a hit and is at 1B. 2nd batter hits a hard grounder to SS. I'm in B (obviously not deep enough as will soon become apparent) and start taking a couple od steps toward 2nd base, for what I assume will be the front end of a 6-4-3 DP. NOT!!! SS decides he can't make that play for whatever reason and decides to throw to 1B instead. I'm focused on the expected play at 2B, when it feels like I've been hit with a 2x4 on the left side of my jaw. I go down to the ground, but fortunately wasn't knocked out. When I could figure out what had just happened to me, and leaned up on an elbow to spit, I figured teeth were gonna be there with all the blood. Luckily no teeth. I wasn't sure just how bad it was until both coaches and my partner all said, "you need to go the doctor". I managed to drive myself home and then the wife took me to the E.R. I did suffer some serious lacerations to the outside (9 stitches) and inside (13 stitches) of my mouth. Lots of swelling and a liquid diet for 4 days. I was back on the field (although not behind the plate) in 3 days. People that witnessed it, couldn't believe I wa sback that quick. I was just glad the throw wasn't 3 inches higher, or it would have hit me right in the temple.
Two lessons to be learned from this:
1) Never take your eyes off the ball.
2) Never assume that a 15 yr. old knows where the play "should" be made.

I had a spun mask too- the problem with mine was that when it whipped around, the ear caught me in the corner of my mouth and knocked out two teeth and chipped another.

The worst one I had though was during a Semi-Pro game where the benches cleared. I was trying to get out of the melee and away to safety, when the cloud of people beared down on me, and knocked me over (it was completely innocent- the PILE was moving independently at that point- no one had control of it!). So I go down, with half the team on tripping over me. This pretty much ended the scuffle, so we all got up...except for me- sprained knee. Doc's said it was really close to tearing something. Crutches for 2 weeks. Missed Provincials!


Bainer.

was doing a 13 year old USSSA qualifier. Pitcher threw on up and in a bit. Catcher did not more harldy at all. Took it in the coller bone. Fracture there. Coach immedietly pulled catcher. smart move.

Other was calling a 5th grade game. Pitcher throwing in the mid to upper 60's. Right handed batter fouled one off that caught the inside of my thigh. Bruised the entire inside of it from about 5 inches above the knee to about 5 inched below the groin (I'm 6'5" so that should give you an idea how big the bruise was.) This happened in Mid May. It is still a little sore to the touch and can still feel knots in the muscle.

creepers.......
 

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I call those back of the thigh smackers, sneek up and bite ya in the ***!Had one 2 weeks ago, PONY kids, 14 U, kid was bringing it, foul smacks me below +POS armour, nasty bruise....never get hit in the stomach....crazy one...

I can't top these, but three stick in my memory.

(1) 1996, HS District Championship in the Knoxville, TN area. I have the plate, and this is a time before I become the gear junkie I am today. Working with a very substandard chest protector.

Pitcher on the mound throws in the 90s and would go on the following year to pitch Division I baseball. Other team is horribly overmatched. Pitcher throws, kid squares to bunt, and fouls it back into my collarbone. BLINDING pain. I dropped to one knee and was just coherent enough to tell my wife to stay off the field. Both partners come in to check on me but NEITHER offered to take my place.

Ordered my first West Vest the next day. Used it until last season.

(2) Same summer. Local league, team makes a pitching change. I finish marking the card and was getting in position to take a look at a couple of the warmups when something smashes into my forearm. Turns out the on-deck batter was up "timing" the pitcher and wasn't watching where he was swinging. Of course, I was walking with my nose in the lineup card. Hurt like hell, but nothing broken. To this day I make sure that the ondeck hitter is in the ondeck circle during a change, especially after that Christensen thing in D-I a few years ago.

(3) Summer of 1998. Working Legion game in rural Louisiana. Popup to short. I'm the BU. Pivot in and step in a hole. Foot stays in hole, rest of me keeps going. Violent twisting of ankle. Would find out months later that I turned it so hard a bone broke off the front of my ankle and lodged itself in the ankle joint. Arthroscopic surgery needed.

So, one from a ball, one from a bat, and one from the field. That covers it.

Rich

Dang it!
 

Today. Legion Dist. Championship. R1
Partner is taking care of bidness near first, but everyone else is ready.
I was upright behind the catcher with my stop sign up.

Pitcher went to stretch, and I took 5 quick steps to my right yelling, "No. NO! NO!"
Pitcher started his delivery and held up, but the ball came loose and one bounced to my left instep.

That left a mark. :cool:

nothing too major here but yesterday (15 yr. old tourn.) I took a foul ball directly in the left hand, about where a watch would be worn. hurt like hell and I could barely hold on to the indicator my hand was in so much pain.

today: 14 yr. old tournament, right handed batter hits a foul ball off the catchers mask (hockey styled, so it deflects pretty well) and into my left bicep, stung like hell and left a hell of a mark. then in the next game I took a ball that skipped off the dirt right into my right forearm. that one caught the bone rather than the meat, and ended up being a lifesaver for the catcher because it kept the runner on 3rd from scoring. after that I got lots of cheers for the good block.