Showing posts with label Puig crashes wall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Puig crashes wall. Show all posts

Monday, May 5, 2014

Jeff Baker's walk-off double bounces off Yasiel Puig's face (VIDEO)

Yasiel Puig is used to putting his body on the line during a game (and real life) but on Sunday, his face came into play as well.

Puig crashed into the fence and took one to the puss during Jeff Baker’s walk-off double to cap the Marlins’ 5-4 win over the Dodgers.

It was a thrilling game before the bottom of the ninth. The Marlins took the lead three times, twice on Giancarlo Stanton home runs. The Dodgers tied it up all three times.

In the bottom of the ninth with the game knotted at four, Baker took the first pitch for a ball, then crushed a cutter out over the plate the opposite way. Puig raced to the right-field wall and attempted a leaping catch, but the ball missed his glove and caromed off the wall and into his left temple, allowing Adeiny Hechavarria to scamper home with the winning run as Puig and the ball dropped to the ground.

Game over.



Puig, who also appeared to hurt his left ankle on the way down, was attended to by Dodgers trainer Stan Conte in left field and walked off the field with his arm around Conte at least in part for support. However, a post-game concussion test was negative. The Dodgers say he is day-to-day.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Yasiel Puig shaken up during remarkable catch against the wall

It looks like the most exciting player in the major leagues can't leap buildings in a single bound after all— but won't avoid running through them.

Yasiel Puig — the Los Angeles Dodgers' phenom and superhero — went down on all fours after crashing into the Coors Field wall while chasing down a fly ball ball against the Colorado Rockies.



Puig made the amazing fifth-inning catch but crashed into the padded stanchion in-between the cushier chain-link fence before falling to the ground holding his left hip.

After trainers and teammates attended to Puig — grimacing in pain on the ground for a few tense minutes on the warning track — he got up, did a quick wind sprint and remained in the game.





The next inning, Puig drove in a run with a sacrifice fly before being taken out when the Dodgers made a double switch. Puig, who was just named the NL player of the month, finished 1-for-3 with a double.

Team officials said a precautionary X-ray was negative and he's listed as day-to-day.