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Baseball Player Faints After Being Hit by Pitch…in the Arm

Will Rhymes Collapses After Being Hit By Pitch

It might not be too incredible to think that a baseball player would collapse after getting hit by a Major League pitch. But what if the player was hit in the arm? You might not think that would cause someone to collapse. But watch the clip of what happened to Will Rhymes of the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night:

Business Insider explains:

The 95 mph fastball by Franklin Morales sounded like it hit squarely on the bone, and a large welt immediately began to form. Rhymes tried to stay in the game, going to first base. But after a few moments, he took a few steps and collapsed into the arms of first base coach George Hendrick.

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  • Treaty
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:58pm

    I think the government should impose a “pain” tax on pitchers that hit batters.

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    • OurFoundingFather
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:48pm

      lol

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    • blackyb
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 4:14pm

      That sounds like a great idea, but Obama would want part of that too.

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    • antiprogressive
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 4:46pm

      NO MORE TAXES!!!!

      Seriously, some a$$wipe probably wants a lawsuit.

      Take responsibility for your own actions.
      Don’t step in front of fastballs or BUSSES!!

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    • 4blackhorses
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:06pm

      BEAUTIFUL!! But wait! Would the tax improve the play of pro basketball players who, looking anquisly like they’re going to die right there on the court are in a play later? Think of the money that could be made of these mega-buck athletes!

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:20am

      Would that be called a “glass” arm?

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  • Fubert Barr
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:53pm

    Was this a hate crime? Is Morales a ‘white Hispanic’?

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  • gbfreak
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:43pm

    The steroids saved his arm. Now he has to do a dog and pony show in front of congress!

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  • PETTYDRAMA
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:25pm

    WIth all the things going on in the world right now this is a national news story according to the blaze? Really? WOW!

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    • LookTowardsTheLight
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:45pm

      Would you freaking relax. It’s called a NEWS WEBSITE. Whether it’s sports, politics, tech, or entertainment…if it’s news, it’s on The Blaze.

      God, get over yourself.

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:48pm

      That’s what I was Thinking
      2 Baseball Stories
      2 Noam Chomsky Stories
      2 Criss Mathews Stories
      12 Barack Obama Stories
      0 Mitt Romney Stories
      This is going to work out so well for the Republicans.

      not that I give a darn about the Republicans
      but Obama must be DEFEATED.

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    • Arthur Spooner
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:49pm

      You don’t understand: If Obama had a white son, he would look like Will Rhymes. I blame Bush.

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:28pm

      Sorry I was off topic
      OUCH ! that really hurt.

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    • Glock31
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 4:41pm

      yeah, no kidding

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  • Bnw6385
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:16pm

    Also, after watching the video again, I noticed immediate diaphoresis (sweating) prominent on his forehead. This is typical of a patient who has just experienced a hypotensive episode.

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  • SimplyAmerican
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:04pm

    I for one think it’s time for some Government internvention … Maybe some new regulation?? Balls should not travel faster than … I don’t know 45 mph?? And if they do … the pitcher and the team is hit with a fine and a prison term??? Maybe? I’m just thinking out loud … I just want our citizens to be safe!!!

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    • lgccac
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:20pm

      Obama will fix it.

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    • Fubert Barr
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:50pm

      I agree … we need more government regulation. Also, they should not keep score, Doing so causes the losers to feel bad and have low self esteem

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    • Disabledvet
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:24pm

      The fainting may scare some kids and they will never be able to play sports, so no fainting or they need to fined.

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:31pm

      I agree
      Wiffel or Nerf
      only in MLB
      or better yet
      Slow Pitch Underhand

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    • palmettopalflorida
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:19pm

      You‘re close but you don’t have it quite right. I think the Commissioner should recruit those “Environmental Nazis” that closed down that ice cream shop in Mass., to protect the patrons, to protect the wooden baseball bats. Were they not living beings. The trees. After all the players don’t need protecting, they can care for themselves. Who’s to know whether these bats are conscious beings or not and whether pain is being inflicted upon them. If we don’t know we must er on the safe side. I say no more wooden bats or fines will follow. Also, were not the hides on the baseballs previously living tissue. Is it not possible that they may have residual sensitivity to being swatted by a wooden bat. I say no hide covered balls. Left them throw stones.

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  • piper60
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:59pm

    I’d like an update as to whether the arm is broken. It sure sounded like it should be.

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    • bpodlesnik
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 4:49pm

      At first, I honestly couldn’t believe that was the sound of the ball hitting his arm. Freaky.

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  • Watermain
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:47pm

    If he made a couple million more he would probably be tough enough to take that…

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:43pm

    Thank God Cole Hamel didn’t do it

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  • AeroGNR20
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:37pm

    In highschool I roled my ankle a few times playing basketball. I can remember two of them like they were yesterday because they were so bad. They didn’t really hurt except for the initial “shock.” Anyway a few minutes afterwards I basically just passed out and felt really cold; I figure I went into shock. I’m assuming it has to do with too much adrenaline or something.

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  • Zeb
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:46pm

    Funny what a little drop in blood pressure can do to a persons mental ability, when the neurons become oxygen deprived systems shut down, mussels weaken balance is effected, and the lights go out.

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  • term limits for congress
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:14pm

    We must ban baseball immediately. Where is the Sports Czar when you need her?

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  • Bill Wallace
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:04pm

    Oh come on. We have hockey players actually diving in front of 95+ mph slapshots where the puck is a chunk of galvanized rubber. Chara has a slap shot of 108 mph. Hockey players dive in front of those.

    On the other end of the spectrum, you look at a soccer player the wrong way and he starts flopping around like a fish out of water.

    I am sure the fast ball hurt. But to collapse from shock? Buck up MLB.

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    • IAUSAPAT
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:19pm

      I agree hockey players are tough (if not insane) but they do have the benefit of padding. Getting hit squarely with a 95 mph baseball with the only padding being a thin piece of fabric is not the same thing. Nothing against hockey players.

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    • KevINtampa
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:55pm

      @IAUSAPAT – Tell that to Richard Panik, Daymond Langkow, Steve Stamkos, Zdeno Chara, or a whole host of other players who have gone face to puck. Also, while goalies have a lot of padding, often times players block shots with areas that are not padded.

      And the argument of a rubber puck…
      #1 It’s not soft rubber.
      #2 Game pucks are served to the ice ROCK HARD FROZEN so they slide better and bounce less.

      That said, a 95MPH fast ball to the forearm is sure to cause pain, enough I would guess that the brain could “short” and cause you to faint.

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    • bpodlesnik
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:59pm

      Yes, but the hockey players are not getting hit on bare skin by the puck most of the time and also have gear on when they do get hit (I have been playing hockey for almost 10 years). There is no need to call this guy a wimp for slightly fainting after being hit by a 95 mph fastball, you have no idea what his conditions are. Second, to arrogantly post something about soccer tells me that you are probably a teenager and haven’t played the sport at a high level.

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    • bitterclinger
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:35pm

      I would’ve normally agreed with all of you until I started taking martial arts classes. Our instructor is big on striking pressure points/nerve bundles. That’s probably what happened here. A well-placed strike on a certain part of the arm can throw the heart out of rhythm, plus one to the solar plexus can kill. Did anyone see the basketball game where the player passed out after another guy barely grazed his chin? Major pressure point.

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    • ReallyAUnionGuy
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:09pm

      Its called a parasympathetic response. The body reacts on its own to outside forces. His fainting had nothing to do with whether or not he is tough. When you get hit that hard in certain areas of your body, ecsp. joints with all the nerve endings bundled close, your body immediately starts to respond and will manifest its self by dilating blog vessels, which lowers the blood pressure, and the heart right, its just under a minute to reach its full affect and then there is not enough pressure to pump blood to the brain, which caused his pale and sweaty skin, you pass out, once you are on the ground laying flat, there is enough pressure to pump blood to your brain and you wake back up. Your body can also have a sympathetic response, which does just the opposite it increases heart rate and blood pressure, but can only do so for so long and then it drops off, thats what shock is. The worst thing they could do is hold him up and keep him laying down. Thats why he was able to get up after he layer flat, but then when they sat him up in the cart he began to get pale again, and put his head down. It takes a little while to recover. If his arm is not broken and continuing to do damage he would have been fine after about 10 to 20 minutes of rest in the supine (laying down) position. The point being its a natural response and you have absolutely no control over it. i say he was pretty darn tough fighting through the pain and staying up until he lost consciousness, theres no quit in him

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  • BB Sailor
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:43am

    It was shock. I had a similar thing happen to me when I was a kid, after I broke my arm. I was fine for an hour after it happened, until the time came when the doc was about to set it. I got very weak and had to lie down. Not pleasant.

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  • Steve28
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:40am

    I would not call him a wuusie as he tried to stay in. Looked like a direct blow to the wrist and would not be surprised if it is broken. I’m sure the guy did not go limp and faint on purpose.

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  • Firesaber
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:29am

    Dunno. Looks like it hit the pressure point right in front of the elbow. Strong blows to these areas can cause the nervous system to shut down temporarily. Of course, that usually happens immediately, but I suppose it could be delayed due to adrenalin/excitement/increased blood flow etc… I once had someone karate chop the ones at the shoulders and I literally could not move for about 10 seconds. Didn’t hurt me, but completely immobilized me.

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    • 2Fedup
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:51pm

      Yes. There r pressure points that can drop u instantly. One n undrarm an one n funnybone area. I hit a friend pretty hard n the elbow one time when i was a teenager and he went out. It was weird n i thought he was playing at first. An iraq vet told me about the armpit one. Also some friends n i hav tried the neck/trap before but not at full strength n u can tell it would work. Only thing w pressure point hits is that it is immediate like u said. Mayb the swellng they mentioned pinched a nerve as it grew over a few seconds.

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  • daxbrady
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:29am

    his arm broke, by the sound of that… sounded like the bat hit the ball, but it was his arm snapping.

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    • BobSevenEleven
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:36am

      No Break via ESPN: Rhymes had X-rays taken on his arm at Tropicana Field and the results came back negative.
      “I’m shocked,” Rhymes said of the results. “Morales throws 95-96 and that one was pretty firm and it hit me right on the bone because I kind of turned into it. It literally hit me square on the bone. They say it’s one of the strongest bones in the body, so thank God for that.

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  • dmac48858
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:28am

    Ghandi, all talk, no brain…

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  • OhioRifleman
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:53am

    Looked like shock. His eyes were pretty well glassed over before and during the collapse.

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  • ragtpz
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:50am

    Totally understandable. Along with the arm getting broken, severe bruising and hematoma developed causing excruciating pressure on the already damaged bone. Whoever says this guy is a wus for collapsing on this, I invite you to stand up and go take one the same way.

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  • Hawkeyefan19
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:42am

    Not surprising. It’s a traumatic injury to the body. The immediate release of adrenalin got him to first base but as the effect of the blow to his arm, and in particular to the bone set in, the body and mind reacted. Hope he’s okay.

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:42am

    He sounds like Sheldon Cooper: “I’m Batman.”

    http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120516&content_id=31465866&vkey=news_tb&c_id=tb

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  • Optimist4now
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:41am

    Ouch!

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  • salvawhoray
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:37am

    Looks like it hit right on the funny bone which equals to being hit in the shin.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on May 17, 2012 at 10:34am

    What a wussie.. Better outlaw pitches over 50 mph..

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    • Optimist4now
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:00am

      You might want to experience the hit before a comment like that.

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    • daxbrady
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 11:31am

      watch the whole clip and listen… sounds like his arm snapped. was so loud catcher thought it was bat that hit the ball.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:20pm

      I knopw wussies…he is no wussie…You might be, but he isnt.

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    • inblack
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:23pm

      Man I almost puked when I heard the noise of it hitting his arm. AUUGHH

      @GHANDI WAS A REPUBLICAN – you are an idiot.

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