Home-plate ump hurt at Dodger Stadium

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Penny's Pitch Hits Ump in Neck
Published 4/27/2008 by Apryl DeLancey at Women Like Sports
... Update: KABC radio reported after the game that Kerwin Danley was going to be released from the hospital tonight. Martin described it as sounding like a Tyson uppercut and apologized over and over. Danley has been involved in baseball for many years, including as a player for San Diego State. Here's to a full and speedy recovery. ...

Penny's Pitch Hits Ump
Published 4/27/2008 by Apryl DeLancey (noreply@blogger.com) at Women Like Sports
... Update: KABC radio reported after the game that Kerwin Danley was going to be released from the hospital tonight. Martin described it as sounding like a Tyson uppercut and apologized over and over. Danley has been involved in baseball for many years, including as a player for San Diego State. Here's to a full and speedy recovery. ...

Kerwin Danley Update
Published 4/27/2008 by Orel at Sons of Steve Garvey
From Dodgers.com: Home-plate umpire Kerwin Danley briefly lost consciousness after being hit under the jaw with a 96 mph fastball in the fourth inning of the Dodgers-Rockies game on Saturday night, and after a delay was taken from the field on an ambulance. [...] The ball hit him on the jaw and he lost consciousness "for a couple of seconds," according to a member of the Dodgers' public relations staff, adding that when the ambulance took him away, he was coherent, breathing and conscious. Danley was taken to Good Samaritan ...