Just squatting behind home plate 130 games every year takes a toll on a catcher’s body, so we can’t even imagine what something like this does to it.
The New York Yankees curb stomped David Price and the Detroit Tigers last night thanks to an eight-run third inning in which the Yanks pounded out nine consecutive hits off the Tigers lefty. Still, that wasn’t even close to being the worst beating somebody suffered in the game.
In the bottom of the fifth inning, Detroit’s Raji Davis fouled off an 0-1 pitch that sent Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli to the dirt in a heap of pain. To add insult to injury, the YES announcers thought Cervelli got popped in his collarbone when in fact the Yankees backstop had really taken it in his nads:
“That is not the collarbone, nope.”
Even if you’re a Red Sox fan, that’s painful to watch.
We thought this was the most painful thing we had seen at a baseball game this year until poor Cervelli took one to the stones: There is Somehow a New Worst First Pitch of All Time
