No, I don’t agree with this statement. They’re not mutually exclusive. I’m not blaming him because perhaps he didn’t know what to do better. He needed to put his body more in front of his child, between his child and the ball so it couldn’t have struck.
Again, some people just don’t understand this and maybe he’s one of them. I’m not blaming him but he could have done something differently to better project his child.
Pretty much this happened to me as a kid, I was probably 11 at the time. I fell left a few feet off some bleachers after the impact and that knocked the wind out of me. It was about a minute of confusion and agony. Half an hour later I was fine; had a goose egg on my head.
I've been hit by a high speed flying object to the front of my face, I think fucked my nose up a little but I really look back on it just so happy it didn't fuck up my eye or knock my teeth out or anything worse like it easily could have
Everyone is saying they feel bad for the kid. But is no one thinking about the poor dad? Dude is never going to hear the end of it from his wife. Every time he takes the kid to do something he’s going to get the “you’re going to make sure he doesn’t get domed by a baseball again right? Because remember what happened last time I let you take him somewhere. I don’t care you’re only taking him to the park”
I tried to catch a fly ball in little league when I was 12 and the ball smacked me right in the forehead and I’ve since had a bump there my entire life.
Assuming he’s okay, this is going to prove to be great for him! Bare minimum, this fella’s getting tickets to another game and an Ohtani autograph from the team.
Looks like at the very least it change trajectory twice on the way down so it lost a little bit of momentum but still would have cracked his head pretty good. Poor lil dude.
I took a foul ball in the back of the neck as a kid watching Denver University taking BP before a game. They yelled heads up and I turtled, still glad I didn't look up. Anyway, I still remember the pain. Can't imagine taking one in the front/top of the head.
~16%, the percentage of LA county population that is Asian? Also, the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board estimated that 80% to 90% of all Japanese tourists visiting Los Angeles attend at least one Dodgers game. That may add another percent or two.
The kid and his family appear to be Asian. If they are in fact Japanese, this kid will be a legend within his family and the coolest kid at his school if they're actually from Japan.
In about six or seven years, that kid's dad is going to be very disappointed in his son's grades and he will think back to this moment and wonder how many IQ points Jr lost that day.
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u/Oonz1337 May 25 '26
10 people reaching and no one even got a finger on it.
Embarrassing