Lazy from the heat...

[HokieUmp]

Not as good as my hit-on-the-top-of-the-head story from a few years ago, but .....

Sunday, I had an adult league game.  Two of the better teams in the competition, with some pitchers that could still throw fast.  It's about 98 degrees (as it was nearly everywhere in the US, from what I could tell), with the usual SE Virginia humidity.  And no clouds to allow us to pretend it was anything but hot.

Already hit in the left arm by a bouncer, but those are tough for an F2, so it is what it is.  But top-5, the pitcher throws one way inside, close enough to get the uniform of the batter.  Unfortunately, two things:

1.  It kept going, and F2 whiffed on it completely;

2.  Because it was hotter than hell, and I was worn out, I was mostly in hands-on-knees mode.  So, my hands (of course) were against my hard plastic knee guards, and my weight was resting on my hands and arms.

So thanks to #1, the ball hit me, effectively with nothing to slow it but that grazed uniform.  And thanks to #2, and my use of a metal indicator, the inside of my left index finger ended up, in medical terms, "cut to SH*#."  And bled a fair bit.  Took a chunk of skin out, although there was still a flap of skin left.  Managed to bruise part of my thumb, too, and I noticed in my game Monday that the back of the indicator was bent, so it was a pretty good shot.

Finished the game, and headed off to the Langley Air Base hospital, mostly just to make sure I hadn't broken the finger or damaged the ligaments.  X-rays showed no major problems, but I ended up with 3 stitches in my finger to close that wound.

The most F2 offered was a "that one really ran hard inside."  Yeah, onto my $%^#@& finger, you dick.  They'd grumbled about a few pitches, but not many, so I don't think that was let go deliberately, but there's still a part of me that's suspicious.

The index finger is still bruised, three days later, up near the tip of the finger.

Good times.

[KenBAZ]

Ouch, hate getting hit on the bones of the hand. Hope you're fully recovered quickly.

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