I felt bad about this reporter, until I read a tidbit dropped in at the end of the story.
Colorado Rockies TV reporter Kelsey Wingert says she is recovering after a foul ball hit her in the head during Monday’s game in Denver. “I took a 95 MPH line drive to my head,” she tweeted Wednesday night, sharing a photo of her stitches. The 29-year-old, who works for AT&T Sportsnet Rocky Mountain, was in the first-base camera well when the foul ball hit by the San Francisco Giants’ Austin Slater in the ninth inning struck her in the forehead, USA Today reports. Wingert says she was treated in the hospital for five hours, reports People.
“I’m very lucky it wasn’t worse,” Wingert says. “It was just really scary and bummed me out given the circumstances.” She says doctors hope the scar won’t be too bad when she gets married next month. USA Today reports that Wingert suffered a fractured eye socket in 2018 when she was hit by a foul ball while covering the Atlanta Braves
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wth?
She was hit in the eye once before?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xFJOP4a5Q48
Maybe she’s not the best reporter to have down on the field. She seems to not pay attention when the ball is at it’s most dangerous. I’d say that that is a skill that must be learned, but she’s proven she doesn’t learn.
Sorry, I’m being so harsh. But, seriously, I am thinking of the player who is doing his job, only to potentially have a lifetime of guilt because this bubblehead is not paying attention.
“In 2018, Wingert, who covered the Atlanta Braves for Fox Sports at the time, was struck while standing in the camera well past the Braves’ first base dugout. Odubel Herrera of the Philadelphia Phillies grounded the foul in the seventh inning that hit her. She suffered a fractured eye socket.“
She should sit up in the press box and not on the third base line.
Ouch!
How many times do you have to get hit in the head before you learn? In her case, at least two.
Gives good head, eh?
Obviously trying to knock any sense into her doesn’t work.
Dumb blond.
If she got hit in the eye she must have seen it coming.
Ya, I know I’m being harsh, but after taking that shot to the eye you’d think she would be wary whenever the pitch is thrown.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xFJOP4a5Q48
Make her baseball’s equivalent to the driving range ball collection guy, who everyone totally aims for, and make a side game out of it. If she gets hit by a ball, then the player gets an automatic home run and everyone gets a free team tchotchke. Would make baseball interesting to watch at least.
How cool is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKMllY6jHp0
Sign her up for one year of this, she needs it;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCg-2V_bFE&t=219s
All sports (football, drag racing, baseball, napcar, etc) are all becoming talk shows. I want to see action, not listen to yak,yak,yak.
Go for the booster shot, baby!
You only get just so many lucky breaks in life, must be she’s used her’s all up.
She’s a moron who has no business being in that position — but diversity. She’s never played baseball and has no business being there
Seriously — that’s her job? Live reporter at baseball games? She reports on what exactly? The refreshments being served in the dugout? I guess it’s one of those on field reporter deals that just isn’t interesting.
It sounds irrelevant and boring and something you would assign some guy who is a sports nerd, and pay him dirt for doing something useless.
Buck, watch out. They’re going to hire a trans man who used to play in the bush leagues.
*shrug* Third time’s a charm.
You would’ve thought that would knock some sense into her.
I don’t know…95mph gave her about 1/2 second to react; not sure how many sports commentators could react that fast.
I invented getting hit in the head with 95 mph line drives.
@ Don Draper
There’s bad head?
“Listen to that crowd, they’re chanting ‘let’s go, Bran**WHACK**
Kamala Harris is familiar with how it feels when two balls hit a person in the head.
You would’ve thought that would knock some sense into her… but nope, she be blonder!
Where’s the Pedos noggin when you need it?
Obviously she has never been in an abusive relationship where she had to be told twice not to do that again. Bet after she is married she comes up with 2 black eyes after the honeymoon.
She is a bit slow on the uptake.
FWIW, I was at a hockey game and this redhead who was yapping he entire game took a slap shot to the forehead. It knocked her five feet out of her seat. The EMTs wheeled her out on a gurney. Her husband stayed for the rest of the game. He said I’m not a doctor. I can’t do anything for her. I think he just wanted a little peace and quiet.