Umpire Jim Gorman Takes Foul Ball to Mask

[johnnyg08]

 

Ouch.

[mw94]

Team Wendy saves the day!  plus a loose fitting mask

[BuckeyeMike]

He should have bought the Davey Strap!  

[GerryB]

What mask?

[umpstu]

Nice cabinets in the kitchen

[UMP45]

Anyone notice the catcher didn't even acknowledge the umpire getting blasted? Wow!

[conbo61]

Catcher is a douche.  Slow-mo side angle at 1:13 is BRUTAL.

[BillKen]

Gotta love those TW pads!  Glad he is okay and the catcher is a rat...will probably grow up to be a coach someday!

[MadMax]

What the heck is the color-commentator talking about?? "I hope it didn't hit higher up on the mask..." Obviously, the guy hasn't ever wore a mask. The most-protected part of the mask, with the greatest stand-off distance, and the benefit of your bone-reinforced forehead behind it, is the brow (the upper). Typically, too, it is spherical in shape, so presents more of a deflective profile.

The _worst_ spot to take an impact like that is the chin / jaw, especially one that jams the jaw back into the skull.

And yes, it is beneficial for the mask to fly off. There's a great deal of energy being gathered by the mask as it flies off, which is another point of benefit over a HSM.

[acpar72]

Ah the knee

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[MadMax]

What mask?

 

With the extended crown guard and flat-ish bars, my best guess is that's a Diamond DFM-UMP-BL, with black TW's.

 

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So am I seeing this right? That's FieldTurf, cast orange-brown, around HP? The mound is the only dirt / clay section?

[Majordave]

Yep.  Kansas has that too.  As do most of the schools with turf around here.  First time I saw that was at Louisville.  Some have turf mounds.  I don't like that at all.

[conbo61]

Ah the knee

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A couple of seasons ago I was working with a partner who took a knee.  BAM! Drove him right into the backstop.  Only bad things can happen with that.

[noumpere]

Yep.  Kansas has that too.  As do most of the schools with turf around here.  First time I saw that was at Louisville.  Some have turf mounds.  I don't like that at all.

Exactly.  when Turf first came out, most that I was still had the dirt "holes" around all the bases and the mound.  Then, some went with just a dirt plate area and mound.  Then, just a dirt mound.  All the recent ones I've seen have been all turf.

 

The hardest part to get used to, I would think, would be the warning track.  The fielder can't really tell any color difference, and there's no "feel" difference.

[Majordave]

Thank God for padded walls, eh? (There's that Canadian influence coming out again.)

[BuckeyeMike]

I'll be calling a game on the U of Iowa new turf field in mid-April, which will be interesting, because I've never been on a turf field like that.

FWIW, it's 2 HS teams, not college ball........YET! 

[gnhbua93]

That wouldn't happen if he was using the Force3 mask.

[Thunderheads]

That wouldn't happen if he was using the Force3 mask.

What, the ball wouldn't have hit him and his mask fell off like it did?  I doubt that.

[JaxRolo]

That wouldn't happen if he was using the Force3 mask.

I agree. He probably would have been knocked unconscious.

[zm1283]

That wouldn't happen if he was using the Force3 mask.

 

How much is Force 3 paying some of you guys to shill for them?

[gnhbua93]

http://www.honigs.com/detail.asp?Item=1599&Sub=176

[MadMax]

Even with the spring suspension, it's mind-boggling (pun coincidental) to see how much the mask's metal deforms.