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Who has seen what they think is the most unique injury due to softball play, training, etc?
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By unique, do you mean bizarre??.. If that is the case, I think we can write the book on it. DD was a freshman pitching on a mound with something hard sticking up at her landing point. During warmups before the game she talks to her coach and ump telling them it is hurting her foot. Umps says basically?.sorry not my job, deal with it. Coach is new and inexperienced and doesn?t push it. Player is 14 and doesn't know she CAN push it. Now a freshman in college, 6 or 7 surgeries later (I have lost count) it is determined it is permanent nerve damage. She should be better in a month or so because they are now going to implant a spinal cord stimulator to intercept the pain signal.
True story. Moral of the story ??Coaches, umps, parents LISTEN TO YOUR PLAYERS and Players, make them listen!
True story. Moral of the story ??Coaches, umps, parents LISTEN TO YOUR PLAYERS and Players, make them listen!
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Im glad my story isnt even close to the situation that cdmx5 is going thru but here is ours.
My dd is known to turn her ankle alot from the craziest plays or basic plays. While playing for the Wizards (out of Toledo) couple of years ago,my daughter just got done icing her ankle down and started to warm up at Rolf Park in Maumee ( USSSA state tournament).
While warming up with a teammate, it wasnt two minutes into throwing, the starting pitcher from our team drilled her in that bad ankle dead on due to the catchers was not looking to due a parent was asking her a question. So the catcher couldnt make an attempt at the ball and the ball hit our dd in the bad ankle of course.
The positive thing that came from this was that she had to bat left handed that game and actually came up with two hits (well one was probably an error), and has worked on switch hitting ever since.
My dd is known to turn her ankle alot from the craziest plays or basic plays. While playing for the Wizards (out of Toledo) couple of years ago,my daughter just got done icing her ankle down and started to warm up at Rolf Park in Maumee ( USSSA state tournament).
While warming up with a teammate, it wasnt two minutes into throwing, the starting pitcher from our team drilled her in that bad ankle dead on due to the catchers was not looking to due a parent was asking her a question. So the catcher couldnt make an attempt at the ball and the ball hit our dd in the bad ankle of course.
The positive thing that came from this was that she had to bat left handed that game and actually came up with two hits (well one was probably an error), and has worked on switch hitting ever since.
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I don't know about unique but a little over a year ago DD is catching in a winter league game and a large girl with the worst swing I have ever seen loops her bat and sends the catchers mitt sailing off her hand fracturing the knuckle joint of her thumb. After that healed she dislocated that same thumb big time diving back to second during our first summer tourney. The worst I've personally seen was several years back at the NSA invitational at Berliner when a girl on the 16U Westerville Ice slid into home and everyone HEARD the ankle crack and fracture. If ever there was a moment when your heart goes out to a player that was it.
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OK, here's one. DD is sitting on the side eating with the team. Crowd on nearby field yells, "heads up". She ducks and covers her head with her left hand. Ball lands squarely from a clear blue sky on her pinkie, fracturing her fingertip. I'll give her credit for playing the rest of the day like that...
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does it have to be softball related can it be another sport?
my son was playing AABC baseball around 15 years old a few years ago
and he hit a grounder that popped up and hit the short stop in the mouth
knocking out about three teeth.
son also was a pitcher and was pitching during a game down in Orlando at the disney complex
and the catcher didn't catch the ball right and hit hit him in the sensitive spot and shattered his cup.
other dd was playing that other sport that starts with S (not swimming) and she was a goal keeper
one of the girls passed back the ball to her to clear out and at the same time she was receiving it to kick and clear the girl on the other team kicked her in the foot and broker her foot. she played the rest of the day. poor thing.
are these allowed they aren't softball but so far my dd and her friends have been lucky
my son was playing AABC baseball around 15 years old a few years ago
and he hit a grounder that popped up and hit the short stop in the mouth
knocking out about three teeth.
son also was a pitcher and was pitching during a game down in Orlando at the disney complex
and the catcher didn't catch the ball right and hit hit him in the sensitive spot and shattered his cup.
other dd was playing that other sport that starts with S (not swimming) and she was a goal keeper
one of the girls passed back the ball to her to clear out and at the same time she was receiving it to kick and clear the girl on the other team kicked her in the foot and broker her foot. she played the rest of the day. poor thing.
are these allowed they aren't softball but so far my dd and her friends have been lucky
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DD was playing 14's a few years back, fouled one off into another field and hit a guy in the head, out cold out of his chair... She felt horrible about it...
New safety device being mandated....Hard hats for parents.....
New safety device being mandated....Hard hats for parents.....
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Several years ago at the Toledo Tune-up a third baseman was playing way to far forward on bunt defense and the problem was the batter wasn't bunting. She caught a chopper in the chompers and let me tell you, I have a son in the Navy and what she was spewing out of her mouth (besides blood) would have put him to shame and this was a 14U bracket.
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Hilliarddad3 said:
At that same toledo tourney, I can't remember the field name but it was right by one of their swimming pools and it was the 4 fields in a cluster design with only about 15 feet in the walkway spaces between the fields. Foul balls were raining down so often from the other diamonds our coach was wearing his DD's spongebob batting helmet when she wasn't using it.
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My husband was playing softball a few years ago. He always played center or left field. Anyway he charged a ground ball and scooped it with the glove and other hand. The ball split his hand open between the middle and ring finger. He had to get 10 stitches. Was a bugger to heal as it kept splitting back open when the stitches came out.
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One last one, and I'm not certain if this would technically qualify as an injury. Sometimes a girls arm strength will build up quicker than other parts of her body and when throwing long and hard the shoulder muscles won't support the joint and so the shoulder starts to stretch out of place and it hurts pretty good. Several months of physical therapy and home exercises is the remedy to build those shoulder muscles up and then it all balances out.
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I was playing outfield years ago and lost a deep fly ball in the sun. As I tried shielding the sun with my glove, the ball that I could not see, deflected off the edge of my glove and hit me on the nose. The next day, I had to work the register at a fast food joint with two black eyes. One of my customers asked if my boyfriend did it to me.
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First year at 10u and we were practicing sliding. We had a piece of cardboard so they wouldn't get hurt. My DD was doing great and the other girls saw this and began to try a little harder. We were about done when my DD asked to do it ONE MORE TIME! Well she caught her foot on the front of the cardboard and bam, there went her ankle. She let out a scream( she never cries) so it knew she was hurt. Needless to say I don't think we had one girl slide home the rest of the season!
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How about the catcher accidently stepping into a hole and hitting the pitcher square in the back of the head (out -concussion) when making routine throw-down to 2B - pitcher had her back to the plate doing the usualy "gardening/grooming" of the mound befor the first pitch
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The injury my dd received isn't necessarily unique, it is who gave it to her that is unique. 4 years ago dd started fastpitch and wanted to be a pitcher. So darling father took her to local high school pitching clinic to help her learn the position. 10 minutes into the clinic, during warm up, darling father, who was 19 inches taller than dd, threw a hard throw back to dd, who happened to glance away for a split second. Needless to say, by the time she glanced back at dad, the ball hit her squarely between the eyes, splitting the bone in her nose down the middle, and fracturing it down both sides. Try explaining that one to child protective services ;D ;D
Now should I list all of the injuries her darling father has received in the years since catching for her? ;D ;D
Now should I list all of the injuries her darling father has received in the years since catching for her? ;D ;D
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DD is stealing home makes beautiful slide underneath catcher and is called safe. Catcher not agreeing with call grabs DD by shoulders and slams her head first into home plate, got a concussion, thank God for helmets. Oh and to top it off ump says he didn't see it, funny, everybody else did, opposing parents cheering, our parents outraged.
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Lil league BB, team mate playing left field mis-plays a routine fly w/borrowed glove and the ball hit him right in the eye socket. Lost his eye.
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bgsufalcon86 said:
I think this one sounds like a great new thread ? ;D
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One of our beloved volunteer dads was feeding a machine and caught a baseball in the shoulder last week. That is one of the worst bruises I've seen.bgsufalcon86 said:
Sorry D, she feels really bad. ?
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Several years ago DD took a foul tip to her throwing hand during the first inning of the game - she is the catcher. This dislocated her finger at the middle joint. Two batters later she threw down to 2nd and the throw caused the dislocated portion to rotate. Her finger was in a "Z" shape with the nail pointing out to the side instead of the front of her hand. She did not tell the coach on either injury casue she did not want to be benched so she played all 7 innings with a dislocated and rotated finger on her throwing hand as a catcher. Dr. was truly amazed that afternoon! Gotta say - these girls are tough!! 
