Kerwin Danley Injured on Foul Ball to Face, Exits Game

[Lindsay]

A foul ball knocked Plate Umpire Kerwin Danley out of Tuesday's Nationals-Diamondbacks game in Arizona. With one out and none on in the bottom of the second inning, Diamondbacks batter Nick Ahmed fouled a 94 mph fastball from Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg directly into the center of Danley's...

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[Thunderheads]

AGAIN???  wow!

http://m.mlb.com/video/v112599283

Edited May 13, 2015 by Thunderheads

[scrounge]

It might be time for this dude to retire

[UmpJeff]

WOW!  He didn't look good...

[maven]

Did I see Joe West break into a trot? Wow, there's something you don't see every day.

[ZebraStripes]

Kerwin gets rocked in TM or HSM.  Ouch.

[Umpire in Chief]

Man, what horrible luck. No matter what mask/ HSM you are wearing that one is going to hurt.

Edited May 13, 2015 by Umpire in Chief

[ZebraStripes]

True, but Kerwin seems to have a homing device in his mask.

[grayhawk]

I noticed that he wears a cap under his HSM.  I wonder it the bill of the cap is close enough to the cage to transfer energy on a 94 mph fastball.