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Originally Posted by spleen1015
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.
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Mine is basically gone, except now I have a small - I think permanent - knot just behind my lip. You can't really see it if you're looking at me, but I can feel it. Once all the swelling went away, it remained. And it's still there, several weeks later. Any time I do something to run my lip over my teeth (say, washing my face where I'm rubbing my hands across my face), I can feel it, and it hurts a bit. I've also got one on the bottom lip, but it's deeper and out of the way and I can only feel it if I touch it with my tongue.
I can't wait to get back outside. She throws hard enough (we clocked her with a gun at our tournament 2 weeks ago at 52-55) that I will probably need to graduate from a single ankle protector on my left foot (like batters wear) to catchers leg gear, but I'm not ready to wear a facemask. But next winter, I might. I trust her, and I trust my ability to catch, but I can't control everyone else.
I'll tell you what sucks more than anything - a dropball. Especially when they are just learning it, and you're inside. Not only is the pitch meant to be thrown low, but usually they overthrow it to where it bounces in front of you, and the spin for the pitch is basically top spin, and it's thrown like a fastball, so you've got a hard, low, bouncing, forward-spinning pitch hitting concrete-like surfaces that you're trying to catch. The day before I took the shot to the mouth, Caitlin threw a dropball that bounced in front of me and literally raced up my arm/chest and smacked me in the jaw like it was a laser-guided missle.