OMFG Matt Clement seriously injured...

[jelkukipik]

Got hit by the ball right on the head

Quit the game, and no news yet on his condition...

 

[keeleysam]

0wn3d.

 

[m2kewl]

bosox pitcher???

 

[EyeMWing]

He Mussina'd it, eh?

 

[Gibson486]

dam...the one game i decide not to watch....it looks like the red sox will do all they can to get Burnetts now.....


Bye Bye Arroyo????

 

[Spooner]

son of a....

 

[Praetorian7]

Go Yanks!!!!!

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: jelkukipik
Got hit by the ball right on the head

Quit the game, and no news yet on his condition...

if he is the boston redsox pitcher (as someone previously said in this thread), why doesn't he have fast enough reflexes to catch the ball?

 

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
0wn3d.

What a jackass thing to say. This seems to be a very serious injury. He was hit off the side of the head and the ball ricocheted all the way to Manny Ramirez in left field. There was very little movement if any from Clement. Both the crowd and television announcers were completely silent for a very long time.

 

[deftron]

Associated Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Boston Red Sox pitcher Matt Clement was hit in the right side of the head by Carl Crawford's line drive Tuesday night and carried from the field on a stretcher.

Clement remained on the ground and barely moved for about five minutes before he was lifted onto a stretcher and immobilized with a neck brace. Replays showed the force of Crawford's liner knocked the All-Star pitcher completely off his feet.

The ball caromed off the back of Clement's head just behind his ear into short left field for an RBI single. Chad Bradford replaced Clement with Boston leading the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 5-1.

 

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: jelkukipik
Got hit by the ball right on the head

Quit the game, and no news yet on his condition...

if he is the boston redsox pitcher (as someone previously said in this thread), why doesn't he have fast enough reflexes to catch the ball?

Often times, the ball leaves the bat faster than the pitcher can throw it. We're talking 100+ mph. This was one of those super line-drive hits which just made a beeline to his head. He had no time to even react.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: jelkukipik
Got hit by the ball right on the head

Quit the game, and no news yet on his condition...

if he is the boston redsox pitcher (as someone previously said in this thread), why doesn't he have fast enough reflexes to catch the ball?

Are you seriously asking this question? Do you have any idea how fast that ball is coming off the bat? The pitcher is only 65 feet from the batters box. He has less than a second to dodge/react. I know you're a female and all, but that is an absolutely retarded question about reflexes.

 

[Gibson486]

wow, they just showed the replay.....that could be a career ending smack...i hope he is alright....

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: jelkukipik
Got hit by the ball right on the head

Quit the game, and no news yet on his condition...

if he is the boston redsox pitcher (as someone previously said in this thread), why doesn't he have fast enough reflexes to catch the ball?

If the ball is coming at him at 100 mph, he has 1/3 of a second before it hits him.

 

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: jelkukipik
Got hit by the ball right on the head

Quit the game, and no news yet on his condition...

if he is the boston redsox pitcher (as someone previously said in this thread), why doesn't he have fast enough reflexes to catch the ball?

Are you seriously asking this question? Do you have any idea how fast that ball is coming off the bat? The pitcher is only 65 feet from the batters box. He has less than a second to dodge/react. I know you're a female and all, but that is an absolutely retarded question about reflexes.

Even less actually - 60'6"

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Mojoed
Even less actually - 60'6"

And the pitcher is probably 5 feet in front of that by the time the ball is hit.

 

Originally posted by: deftron
The ball caromed off the back of Clement's head just behind his ear into short left field for an RBI single.

Does anyone else find this sentence morbidly humorous?

 

[imported_ArtVandalay]

Yikes, hope he's ok. And I'm a Yankees fan, but at the end of the day it's just a game.

 

[happybelly]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
0wn3d.

:disgust:

I hope he's ok. I know how fast that ball can come back at you, it's not a funny thing.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: ArtVandalay
Yikes, hope he's ok. And I'm a Yankees fan, but at the end of the day it's just a game.

Agreed. They took him off on a stretcher. :Q

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

damn, you're talking serious concussion at BEST.

permanment effects of brain injuries are pretty bad... personality change, loss of cognitive and memory functions...

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: jelkukipik
Got hit by the ball right on the head

Quit the game, and no news yet on his condition...

if he is the boston redsox pitcher (as someone previously said in this thread), why doesn't he have fast enough reflexes to catch the ball?

because you are the official ball catcher?

I don't even know baseball but that comment was the

 

[madogvt]

I'm not a Red Sox fan, but I hope he comes back quick. he's done a great job for them.

 

[ThePresence]

From the Sox's site:

ST. PETERSBURG -- Boston right-hander Matt Clement was struck with a line drive by Carl Crawford with one out in the bottom of the third in the Red Sox-Devil Rays game at Tropicana Field on Monday night.
The drive appeared to glance off Clement's head and he was taken from the field by stretcher. He left the field on a stretcher and was taken to nearby Bayfront Medical Center. No details of his condition are available at this time.

 

[anxi80]

thats terrible. everytime i hear about something like this i cant help but always think of herb score and taking a gil mcdougald line drive in the eye and ending his season. looking at his numbers and what mantle said, score came back but was never the same.