Here is Royals’ Mitch Maier taking a fastball off the face last night, brought to you by Matchbox 20, the official music of pitching high and tight:↵
Baseballs Take Decisive Strategical Advantage in Their War Against Faces
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↵Not surprisingly, Maier did not walk away from this unscathed. X-rays revealed three broken bones below his right eye. The pitcher, Zack Jackson, clams he was “trying to throw a cutter down and away,” but, at the last moment before he released the ball, he realized Wednesday is opposite day, duh. ↵
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↵↵Not surprisingly, Maier did not walk away from this unscathed. X-rays revealed three broken bones below his right eye. The pitcher, Zack Jackson, clams he was “trying to throw a cutter down and away,” but, at the last moment before he released the ball, he realized Wednesday is opposite day, duh. ↵
↵(Big thanks to Meech from The Fightins for the video.)↵
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