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Pink Sox supervisor Alex Cora stated Houck was aware the entire time following the scary play.
Tanner Houck was in a scary scenario Friday night time when Yankees catcher Kyle Higashioka hit a line drive that struck the Pink Sox pitcher’s face, inflicting him to bleed and go away the sport.
Following the Pink Sox’ 15-5 win, Pink Sox supervisor Alex Cora stated Houck received fortunate.
“He was aware the entire time in order that’s good,” Cora instructed reporters. “Clearly the lower. He’s within the hospital proper now getting additional exams. We’ll know extra clearly on the finish of the night time, however we received fortunate there.”
Because the staff awaits take a look at outcomes, Cora isn’t certain what the extent of Houck’s damage is, saying, “As of now, all I do know is he’s aware.”
“It’s not good. We reacted straight away,” Cora added. “Like I stated, he knew the place he was straight away and he saved saying he was wonderful. We’ve simply gotta be certain we sluggish him down. I noticed him whereas he was getting stitches. He received fortunate. Let’s put it that approach.”
As Cora talked about, Houck appeared to get fortunate on an unfortunate play within the moments that adopted the scary incident. Higashioka’s line drive got here off his bat at 89.7 mph with the ball showing to hit Houck under his eye and on his higher cheek. Houck was instantly bleeding from the play and went down, however was capable of go away the sphere in lower than a minute after he received hit.
Houck was instantly recognized with a facial contusion.
Regardless of the scary scenario, Houck remained in good spirits as he was apparently cracking jokes earlier than departing to the hospital, based on Pink Sox pitcher Garrett Whitlock.
“It was scary,” Whitlock instructed reporters befitting going to go to Houck because the hospital. “Nevertheless it may have been so much worse.”
Nonetheless, that didn’t trigger another Pink Sox teammates, equivalent to Connor Wong, to be involved.
“Clearly actually scary,” Wong instructed reporters. “Any time the ball’s hit again in direction of the mound on a line, you’re type of holding your breath. After which once you see it ricochet off within the upper-body, head space, it makes it even worse. And to see him simply curling himself, it simply made all of it worse. I hope he’s doing all proper.”
Houck had a strong outing Friday previous to the damage. He allowed only one run on 4 hits, one stroll, and two strikeouts as he was in line to select up his fourth win of the season.
Houck has pitched higher as of late after struggling within the first month-plus of the season. Whereas he’s gone 0-3 in his final 5 begins, he’s posted a 4.32 ERA whereas permitting 21 hits, eight walks, and has 26 strikeouts in 25 innings pitched.
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