Yesterday, we had a softball JV double header in Richfield, Utah. We won the first game, starting off with a big lead in the first three innings. The score was 2-7 in our favor, and in the fourth inning, the opposing team scored six points. In the sixth inning, we opened up with our hits, and scored four more points, ending the game in the seventh inning with a score of 8-11. We won! But, just barely.
We began playing the second game, and the opposing team was leading in the third inning with a score of 7-0. Ikes! We were being beaten with a very hard stick! The girls finally started hitting, and scored 3 points during one inning up at bat. In the fifth inning, Richfield scored another point, and our pitcher started walking batters. We decided to switch pitchers, and put in a player that doesn't play as often as the other pitchers, and isn't quite as good as them, but we wanted her to have some playing experience.
While she was pitching to her second batter, the unthinkable happened.
The girl at bat hit a direct line drive back at our pitcher, and the ball hit our pitcher directly in the middle. of. her. forehead. The ball was not deflected by her glove, it didn't hit her hand first, it hit her square in the forehead. She let out a guttural scream, looked at the dugout, fell to her knees, then laid down on her back. She was crying, but she didn't have any tears coming out of her eyes.
I ran out to the field to check on her, and noticed the immediate goose egg the size of a silver dollar on her head. I decided that since it was head trauma, I needed to call 911. I walked away to find a cell phone to call 911, and then walked back to check on her again. During the two minutes I was away, her goose egg had grown to the size of a tennis ball.
Imagine cutting a tennis ball in half, and gluing one half directly on your forehead. That is what her forehead looked like. What was incredible, is that she had the stitches of the ball embedded into her forehead, so it looked like an actual softball was coming out of her head. Later, I heard that the doctor she saw in the emergency room thought she actually had stitches before she got hit by the ball. Crazy!
Our pitcher, thankfully, was responsive and answered all of the questions we asked her, correctly. She remembered the game, her name, how she got hit, etc.. The ambulance arrived, and carried her away on a stretcher. She was taken to the hospital, was administered an I.V., had X-rays done and was given a CT scan. After an hour, the doctors released her saying no damage was done. Of course, she has a larger than life goose egg, and will have two black eyes and a major headache for the next week, but thankfully, nothing more dangerous than that.
It was a very scary situation, and I have no doubt that the image of that bump on the middle of her forehead will be in my mind for my life to come.
2 comments:
Ouch, you're supposed to have your camera for things like that aren't you?? Actually I think it would be odd if you were taking pictures of the girl while she were laying on the ground in miserable pain!
I'm sorry, I've never learned how to fix my typos on these things so I meant to say 'it would be odd if you were taking pictures of the girl while she WAS laying on the ground.......
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