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Home-plate ump hurt at Dodger Stadium

Women Like Sports found this 4/27/2008 on losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com

LOS ANGELES -- Home-plate umpire Kerwin Danley briefly lost consciousness after being hit in the mask in the jaw area 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 pitch from the Dodgers' Brad Penny, the first of the inning with Garrett Atkins batting, ticked off the glove of Dodgers ...