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Ouch: Manny shakes off being struck in the
hand by a 95-mph Homer Bailey fastball.
Photo credit: Associated Press
Manny Ramirez put a scare into fans and the team last night after being struck on the hand by a 95-mph fastball by Reds pitcher Homer Bailey.
Ramirez, who hit a two-run triple in the first inning and made a nice running catch in the gap on a Joey Votto drive, was leading off the third inning. I'm not saying Bailey was aiming to hit Manny, but it's likely he was trying to brush him back off the plate.
The outfielder was taken to Huntingdon Huntington Hospital in Pasadena for X-rays, which turned out to be negative. And, in a nod to modern technology — and the keen interest fans take in Manny's health — the Dodgers flashed the results of the negative X-rays on the scoreboard in the sixth inning.
He took the pitch flush on the back of his left hand, and teammates thought it was probably broken — which would have put him out at least a couple of weeks during a critical stretch for the Dodgers.
Teammate Rafael Furcal said he feared the worst after watching the pitch strike Ramirez on the left side of his hand, not a glancing blow.
"Everybody was expecting like a broken hand, but I'm glad he's OK," he said. "Maybe he'll take a day off and play on Friday. He said he was OK."
As for Bailey, he admitted to wanting to come inside tight on the Dodgers slugger.
"The good news is Manny's hand isn't broken. I'm glad that's the case or there would have been a lot of mad Los Angelians at me," Bailey said. "I was trying to get about stomach high and in. That's kind of what we had on him. You have to go in. When you go in, you don't want to miss over the plate, because he's liable to hit it 800 feet. The pitch just got away from me. I think it was pretty obvious it wasn't on purpose. The good news is they listed him as day to day. I would never intentionally hit anybody."
And, for the record, Randy Wolf hit the next batter he faced, Jonny Gomes — though on the foot. That's baseball.
Oh, and the Dodgers won again, routing the Reds 12-3.
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