Missouri High Schools to require pitchers to wear masks.
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I was reminded again recently about why I am strongly in favor of masks for pitchers...
While waiting in the hole, I was talking with our starting pitcher for that game (also one of our team's most powerful hitters) about how pitchers should wear masks, and how I really wish she would wear one. Her complaint was that it wasn't comfortable. During her at bat following that conversation, she proceeded to square up a pitch and drive it straight to the face of the other team's pitcher. The ball got to her so fast that she never had a chance to put her glove up, or duck out of the way. Thankfully, she was wearing a mask, or it would have been catastrophic. As it was, the sunglasses she was wearing under the mask split open her eyebrow. She was taken to the hospital for stitches and concussion evaluation immediately.
The next inning, our pitcher wore her mask.
While waiting in the hole, I was talking with our starting pitcher for that game (also one of our team's most powerful hitters) about how pitchers should wear masks, and how I really wish she would wear one. Her complaint was that it wasn't comfortable. During her at bat following that conversation, she proceeded to square up a pitch and drive it straight to the face of the other team's pitcher. The ball got to her so fast that she never had a chance to put her glove up, or duck out of the way. Thankfully, she was wearing a mask, or it would have been catastrophic. As it was, the sunglasses she was wearing under the mask split open her eyebrow. She was taken to the hospital for stitches and concussion evaluation immediately.
The next inning, our pitcher wore her mask.
You had that conversation with her while she was in the hole preparing to hit???
Yes. It was part of the conversation we were having regarding a few different things in the time leading up to her stepping out into the on deck circle.
Idk, blah, blah. She leaps too.
Interesting approach.
Interesting how? Since I generally sit on a bucket in (or near) the dugout doorway, I talk to our in-the-hole batters pretty frequently. In this particular instance, the conversation was more about pitching than hitting.
