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Old 02-09-2012, 09:04 AM   #7061
spleen1015
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Originally Posted by Ksyrup View Post
Softballs to the mouth hurt.

I took a pitch to the face Sunday night during pitching practice. I freaking hate practicing indoors. We had 3 cages, 4 girls. My daughter got paired up with a young 10U girl just learning to pitch. She kept throwing across her body to the right of her dad, where I was sitting. On one pitch, it came straight at me just as my daughter was letting loose and I took Caitlin's pitch square on the right side of my mouth. Thank God I didn't lose any teeth. Ended up in ER and look horrible right now (especially coming back from a week in Vegas - co-workers got a chuckle out of that). I ended up chewing off a bit of the inside of my lower lip because it was flapping and causing some pain.

Not too excited to get back in the cage, I must say.

I took one off the shoulder this past weekend. My daughter's lessons are in an open area in a sports performance place. There are at most 4 girls pitching at the same time and there's no netting between the girls. My daughter is only 9 and still learning how to pitch so she can't through it too hard yet.

There was a 16 year old next to us that threw one wild and it took a weird bounce right at my head, so I caught that one while my daughter's pitch bounced off my shoulder. I have a nice little bruise today.

I think it is only a matter of time before someone eats a bad one at this place.

Last edited by spleen1015 : 02-09-2012 at 09:05 AM.
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