Rick Helling impaled by a broken bat

[buehrle4cy05]

You think Prior's injury yesterday was ugly, look at this.
http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/a...milb&fext=.jsp

[santo=dorf]

I wonder if he's afraid of Holy water and Garlic too.

[RKMeibalane]

Fortunately, Helling wasn't too seriously injured by the bat. It's fairly surprising that injuries like this don't occur more frequently.

[Lip Man 1]

Actually it has happened before.

In the mid 70's (I want to say around 74-75) Dodgers catcher Steve Yeager was swinging his bat in the on deck circle at Dodger Stadium when his teammate's bat exploded hitting a pitch.

A piece of the barrell lodged in his throat and it was a sizable piece. That rushed him off the field into the trainer's room where they were able to remove it. Fortunately all he had to get were a number of stiches.

Lip

[RKMeibalane]

Helling OK