bugsandcranks.com - 4/27/2008
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Vin Scully’s call and the video of umpire Kerwin Danley taking a 96-mph Brad Penny fastball to the jaw….
Here’s hoping he’s okay.
Early word from Baseball Tonight is he was coherent, conscious and breathing and taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital with his wife for “precautionary reasons.” From Saturday night's Rockies-Dodgers game.
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Kerwin Danley Update
sonsofstevegarvey.com 4/27/2008 — 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 ...
Kerwin Danley Takes his Umply Lumps [MLB Closer]
deadspin.com 4/27/2008 —
Home plate umpire and crew chief Kerwin Danley took a 96 mph Brad Penny fastball to the jaw in the 4th inning of the Dodgers 11-3 win over the Rockies last night. The game was delayed 18 minutes and Danley had to be taken off the field in an ...
Ump Gets Hit By Pitch
babeslovebaseball.com 4/27/2008 — When Brad Penny isn't forgetting to zip , he's nailing umpires in the face with fastballs. Kerwin Danley was smoked in the jaw by a pitch Saturday during the Los Angeles Dodgers - Colorado Rockies game, having to leave the field in an ambulance.
KO’s O’Plenty at Dodger Stadium
bugsandcranks.com 4/27/2008 — Chalk beat me into the editing room for footage of Kerwin Danley’s unfortunate situation. Those umps really count on the catcher to protect them, and I swear that’s the first mistake I’ve seen Russell Martin make in three years. You almost have to ...
Umpire Kerwin Danley and the Voice of the World Umpires Association —
dodgerfan.net
Photo credit: Los Angeles Times
Umpire Kerwin Danley is apparently still feeling the after effects of an errant pitch from Dodger Brad Penny almost a week after it happened.
Danley has said that he continues to get headaches and is in some level of discomfort.
The Los Angeles Times update on the situation does a good job of rehashing the details, so I won’t do it myself. What ...
The Unintentional Hilarity that is Vin Scully Broadcasting a Severe Injury —
JoeSportsFan.com
Last weekend, veteran National League umpire Kerwin Danley was struck in the jaw by a 96 MPH Brad Penny fastball. Danely has yet to return to the field and still has headaches , but all signs point to a full recovery. Nothing funny about taking a near-100 MPH fastball to the face.
Unless of course Vin Scully is calling the action and narrates the life and times of Kerwin while he's ...
Umpires are Dropping Like Flies —
Walkoff Walk
On the heels of the Kerwin-Danley-getting-knocked-out story comes this cryptic item from last night's Cubs-Brewers contest:
"Home plate umpire Jerry Crawford left Tuesday night's game after the second inning with an undisclosed illness and was sent to Illinois Masonic Hospital for evaluation. There was a 13-minute delay after Crawford left the field and play resumed in the ...
UMPIRES BIGGEST NIGHTMARE —
The Slav's Baseball Blog - BASEBALL 24-7-365
KERWIN DANLEY TAKES A DIRECT HIT - 96 MPH FASTBALL TO THE GRILL The equivalent of a line drive come backer to the pitcher. At least on a foul tip, some of the speed is taken off. This was a direct hit, the catcher totally whiffed on it, looks like he got crossed up, but he bailed on it and let the umpire take it right on the jaw. A 95-MPH fastball would be the rough equivalent of a Mike ...
Cheese Kills —
EveryJoe » Baseball
There are few moments in sports that are truly scary. A NASCAR driver doing flip after flip after flip at 180mph, a NHL player getting slashed across the throat with a skate, and a batter getting drilled in the bean by a 100mph fastball immediately come to mind. But what about the umpire?
If you hadn’t seen it yet, umpire Kerwin Danley was drilled in the jaw by a Brad Penny fastball. ...
Ump Beaned —
baseballmusings.com
Kerwin Danley was knocked out by a Brad Penny pitch Saturday night. My best wishes go out to him for a quick recovery....
Umpire injured by 96 mph fastball in Dodgers-Rockies game —
MLB - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports
Brad Penny had a serious scare Saturday night, the likes of which he had never experienced. Home plate umpire Kerwin Danley, who was hit on the right side of his jaw by a 96-mph fastball from Penny that sailed past catcher Russell Martin , was on his back and not moving. The mishap in the fourth inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers ' 11-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium ...
A Strange Evening in Chavez Ravine… —
dodgerfan.net
OK, so this was one of the strangest games I’ve seen in a LONG time…
1. The Home Plate Umpire loses consciousness after being hit by a pitch.
Dodger pitcher Brad Penny inadvertantly hit home plate umpire Kerwin Danley in the jaw with an errant pitch and Danley slumped down on the ground, losing consciousness for a time. The game was stopped for 18 minutes while Danley was ...
Prolonged headaches continue for ump —
Major League Baseball News
Umpire Kerwin Danley still has headaches, five days after he was hit in the face mask by a pitch from the Dodgers' Brad Penny. Danley's condition is being monitored by Major League Baseball and he is not yet scheduled to return to work, the World ...
UMP HURT, NEEDS AMBULANCE —
NY Post: Sports
LOS ANGELES - Plate umpire Kerwin Danley was taken off the field in an ambulance last night after he was struck on the jaw by a Brad Penny fastball that Dodger catcher Russell Martin missed in the fourth inning. Dodger spokesman Josh Rawitch said...
Dodgers 11, Rockies 3 —
NYT > Baseball
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Matt Kemp hit a grand slam to cap a 10-run first inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 11-3 on Saturday night in a game delayed 18 minutes when plate umpire Kerwin Danley was hit in the jaw by a pitch and ...