Greg Gibson Spiked in the Face

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Originally Posted by Manny A

I couldn't see the video (work firewall, I guess). But I'd venture to say Gibson was probably to close to the play as well. Whatever happened to opening up your field of view by keeping some distance between yourself and the play?

He really wasn't that horribly close. Hunter slid head-first somewhat awkwardly and his upper body kind of "stuck" while his legs flew around and caught Gibson in the face. Couple that with the fact the slide was well to the backstop side of the plate, you have disaster.