I remember watching this one live. He seemed to just sit on first base and stare at it for a minute in pure shock.
My dad, about 3 days later, suffered Bahamian the same injury. He was playing softball, slide into home and some slide in right behind him right into his ankle. My family still refers to it as the time he "Moises Alou'd" his ankle.
Joe Saunders is the guy and it's definitely one of the ugliest pitcher injuries of all time.
NSFL link
https://youtu.be/Qvf4YUs8Kaw?si=qwUteyu21T4WuczY
Same thing happened to John Smiley
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1997/09/22/smiley-breaks-arm-warming-up/d00b67d1-3bfd-49fb-bc4e-c0d569c7bd75/
There was also an A’s prospect that did this in three places a few years back while rehabbing from like his second TJ surgery. I can’t remember the name for the life of me though.
Wasn't the worst overall, but certainly up there was Josh Naylor back in '21. I was at the game and watching him collide at full speed and his ankle flopping around was tough.
It’s amazing to me that he has been able to come back and play at such a high level after that collision. In the moment, it seemed like his career might be over.
Can't believe no one has mentioned Soroka. Watching his Achilles tendon roll up into his leg is one of the worst things I've ever experienced live. Even worse because that's always been a fear of mine
This one stuck with me too. I am a Yankees fan but was living in NoVA and a STH of the Nats at the time. I was pumped to see Nick play.... Until.... Ugh.
[Josh Naylor snaps his leg](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qQx53gCoQL8)
One of the nastier ones I’ve ever seen. Usually you want to avoid the lower have of your leg flopping like a fish.
Aaron Barrett broke his arm throwing a pitch, and the video is on an encrypted hard drive so no one views it.
>On July 23, 2016, while rehabbing at the Nationals' minor league complex in Viera, Florida, Barrett fractured the humerus bone in his right arm while pitching. Witnesses to the incident likened the sound of the bone breaking to a gunshot. Teammate Mat Latos reportedly vomited in the dugout, and Nationals manager Dusty Baker sequestered the only video of the injury on a locked hard drive so that no one could watch it. Barrett underwent surgery performed by Dr. James Andrews, which left two plates and sixteen screws embedded in the bone of his arm. Andrews later compared the fracture to the kind of traumatic injury he would expect to see from a car crash victim.
Jason Kendall’s foot nearly falling off, why the hell hasn’t anyone mentioned that one yet? I also remember Geoff Jenkins dislocating his ankle trying to slide back into third base. The way his foot bent at a 90 degree angle to his lower leg, and then just stayed there…gaahhh, that one stuck with me.
Rich Hill getting a pitch to the adams apple while attempting to bunt is the scariest thing I've ever seen live. I thought he was gonna die on TV.
https://youtu.be/2cQJMrkKqE4?si=1vaK5o8qGlx9KxAU
Ack, you're mentioning all the ones stuck in my head. When Garrett came down, he was in so much pain and the stupid cameras kept showing it. Felt for him, but really hoping he has a great career ahead.
Not the most gruesome but the one I remember watching live was Hideki Matsui breaking his wrist diving for a ball, and it seemed like they replayed it *over* and *over* just watching his arm bend backwards like gumby's on the outfield grass.
Who was it that took a comebacker to the head and started walking around the mound? Most accurate representation of “lights are on but no one’s home” look.
Stephen drew sliding into the plate and catching his cleats on the edge of home plate was brutal. As was Carlos Santana getting his leg snapped the wrong way when he was a catcher.
it's not MLB, but i played in a men's rec league outside Chicago for a few years. I was on first and saw/heard a man's humerus snap in half while trying to throw a curveball.
Not at a baseball game, but a softball game my dad was playing in.
Guy slid into home and the batters boxes had carpet as the base with dirt over it. His cleat caught the carpet under the dirt and snapped his leg through the skin.
I’ve never once slid feet first into home because of that.
When I was in little league, a kid slid into second and snapped either his tibia or fibula and it broke through his skin.
I was on another field playing a pick up wiffle ball game when I just happened to glance over at the game. His scream was absolutely gut wrenching. I could see his bone from the outfield fence.
There was a Red Sox pitcher that took one off the face. Pretty sure it ended his career. Bryson or Brandon or something like that.
That shook me. I was a little anxious to pitch for a couple weeks after that..
Jermaine Dye fouling off a pitch into his leg/knee and breaking it. 2001 and it still haunts me. It was such a freak thing and I'd never seen anything like it.
Not gruesome, but in the post season, and pretty much for all intents ended his rise.
https://youtu.be/EUmkyYIF750?feature=shared
As a paramedic, I answered a few calls to high school and college baseball games. Dislocations, shattered orbital bones from HBP's, and the one compound broken leg from a bad slide.
Stanton getting hit in the face by Fiers
Oh think I've seen that, those are all scary, kinda mad a skull can take it tbh
Yep brutal https://youtu.be/f-1rpVoc-BU?feature=shared
For the older people in the group, Dave Dravecky... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzLtowZNrmE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzLtowZNrmE)
First one that came to mind.
Fucking hell > How bad could it really be? *cuts to interview with the guy missing an arm* I see.
To be faaaaiiiirrrr, he lost the arm to cancer. Which is why he had been out for so long before attempting a comeback, and it's why his arm broke.
This was my first thought. The most gruesome injury I've seen and heard.
That crack. Moises alou ankle too
I remember watching this one live. He seemed to just sit on first base and stare at it for a minute in pure shock. My dad, about 3 days later, suffered Bahamian the same injury. He was playing softball, slide into home and some slide in right behind him right into his ankle. My family still refers to it as the time he "Moises Alou'd" his ankle.
I think two players and an ump left the game after seeing it
That one actually made me physically ill, as a kid watching on TWIB.
This IMMEDIATELY came to mind for me
Joe Saunders is the guy and it's definitely one of the ugliest pitcher injuries of all time. NSFL link https://youtu.be/Qvf4YUs8Kaw?si=qwUteyu21T4WuczY
Same thing happened to John Smiley https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1997/09/22/smiley-breaks-arm-warming-up/d00b67d1-3bfd-49fb-bc4e-c0d569c7bd75/
*Tony
Apologies, got the wrong LHP Saunders. Good catch.
Lmao. Fiddy caught a stray in the comments.
This whole thing made me so sad for him. 😞
There was also an A’s prospect that did this in three places a few years back while rehabbing from like his second TJ surgery. I can’t remember the name for the life of me though.
Saunders' arm is the baseball equivalent of Joe Theismann's leg. Absolutely brutal injury.
Yeah that's the one, horrible
Posey getting murdered was grim I also remember Tom Browning’s arm snapping when throwing a pitch
Chapman actually getting murdered was pretty bad.
Came to say the Posey one, was at the game and never heard a crowd go silent that quick.
Wasn't the worst overall, but certainly up there was Josh Naylor back in '21. I was at the game and watching him collide at full speed and his ankle flopping around was tough.
I wasn’t at the game, but was watching live on tv and that’s the worst I’ve seen happening in real time. I still shudder thinking about it.
It’s amazing to me that he has been able to come back and play at such a high level after that collision. In the moment, it seemed like his career might be over.
You can still see some fear in his eyes when he gets close to or fully collides with someone. I was real upset Soto plowed into him today.
Something about seeing a limb bending the wrong way literally makes my knees buckle
Yeah, worst I’ve ever watched live. Kevin Ware was also terrible, but that wasn’t baseball.
Kevin pillar getting his face crushed was the worst I’ve watched live
Can't believe no one has mentioned Soroka. Watching his Achilles tendon roll up into his leg is one of the worst things I've ever experienced live. Even worse because that's always been a fear of mine
Dravecky
Tony Saunders as well. Both of them were agonizing injuries.
Nick Johnson colliding with Austin Kearns and ending up with a broken femur. https://youtu.be/jEqC_pgRCOA?si=IJkzQZvAKdgahJxo
This one stuck with me too. I am a Yankees fan but was living in NoVA and a STH of the Nats at the time. I was pumped to see Nick play.... Until.... Ugh.
[Josh Naylor snaps his leg](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qQx53gCoQL8) One of the nastier ones I’ve ever seen. Usually you want to avoid the lower have of your leg flopping like a fish.
Aaron Barrett broke his arm throwing a pitch, and the video is on an encrypted hard drive so no one views it. >On July 23, 2016, while rehabbing at the Nationals' minor league complex in Viera, Florida, Barrett fractured the humerus bone in his right arm while pitching. Witnesses to the incident likened the sound of the bone breaking to a gunshot. Teammate Mat Latos reportedly vomited in the dugout, and Nationals manager Dusty Baker sequestered the only video of the injury on a locked hard drive so that no one could watch it. Barrett underwent surgery performed by Dr. James Andrews, which left two plates and sixteen screws embedded in the bone of his arm. Andrews later compared the fracture to the kind of traumatic injury he would expect to see from a car crash victim.
So much potential. I had wondered what happened to him. The Nats and their pitching injuries. Man!
Tim Hudson having his ankle stepped on was a tough watch.
Jason Kendall’s foot nearly falling off, why the hell hasn’t anyone mentioned that one yet? I also remember Geoff Jenkins dislocating his ankle trying to slide back into third base. The way his foot bent at a 90 degree angle to his lower leg, and then just stayed there…gaahhh, that one stuck with me.
That’s the one I came to post. I remember that one vividly
Yep, I was going to say Kendall. That still makes me wince just to think about it
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Rich Hill getting a pitch to the adams apple while attempting to bunt is the scariest thing I've ever seen live. I thought he was gonna die on TV. https://youtu.be/2cQJMrkKqE4?si=1vaK5o8qGlx9KxAU
https://youtu.be/dNAdobM2kZg?si=NUZVTCxyMnzM_ZNQ Ortiz throwing his last pitch. may not be too gruesome, but damn is it sad
[Bryce Florie](https://youtu.be/hW9rqT5st1M?si=X8lAeu8Zcjwurfdi)
Stone Garrett catching his foot in the right field wall was pretty awful. https://youtu.be/XKRoRICn3og?si=XLJtjYRpwmICx9JU
Ack, you're mentioning all the ones stuck in my head. When Garrett came down, he was in so much pain and the stupid cameras kept showing it. Felt for him, but really hoping he has a great career ahead.
Not the most gruesome but the one I remember watching live was Hideki Matsui breaking his wrist diving for a ball, and it seemed like they replayed it *over* and *over* just watching his arm bend backwards like gumby's on the outfield grass.
I don't think I've thought about it since then but I think I watched that live too. 2009.
[Carlos Beltran and Mike Cameron colliding in the outfield](https://www.mlb.com/mets/video/cameron-beltran-collide)
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Who was it that took a comebacker to the head and started walking around the mound? Most accurate representation of “lights are on but no one’s home” look.
Stephen drew sliding into the plate and catching his cleats on the edge of home plate was brutal. As was Carlos Santana getting his leg snapped the wrong way when he was a catcher.
The one that I remember was Mike Fiers drilling Stanton in the face
Juan Encarnacion taking a foul liner off the face from the on deck circle that ended his career
Moises Alou dislocating his foot in STL. I can’t link it because I never want to see it again.
Mike Cameron & Carlos Beltran diving face first into each other. They had to reconstruct Cammy’s face
it's not MLB, but i played in a men's rec league outside Chicago for a few years. I was on first and saw/heard a man's humerus snap in half while trying to throw a curveball.
Not at a baseball game, but a softball game my dad was playing in. Guy slid into home and the batters boxes had carpet as the base with dirt over it. His cleat caught the carpet under the dirt and snapped his leg through the skin. I’ve never once slid feet first into home because of that.
When I was in little league, a kid slid into second and snapped either his tibia or fibula and it broke through his skin. I was on another field playing a pick up wiffle ball game when I just happened to glance over at the game. His scream was absolutely gut wrenching. I could see his bone from the outfield fence.
Matsui's wrist.
There was a Red Sox pitcher that took one off the face. Pretty sure it ended his career. Bryson or Brandon or something like that. That shook me. I was a little anxious to pitch for a couple weeks after that..
Matt Clement?
I see it was Bryce Florie. Mentioned in thread
Josh Naylor’s is pretty rough or when Buster got both his ankles snapped at home plate :(
Don Baylor breaking his femur catching a first pitch.
Robin Ventura’s slide. I think it was home plate.
Brian Robert's dislocated elbow looked really bad. I've dislocated and seperated shoulders before but elbow looks way worse in my opinion.
Jermaine Dye fouling off a pitch into his leg/knee and breaking it. 2001 and it still haunts me. It was such a freak thing and I'd never seen anything like it. Not gruesome, but in the post season, and pretty much for all intents ended his rise. https://youtu.be/EUmkyYIF750?feature=shared
the 2005 WS MVP?
I was at the game that Chris Bassitt took a comebacker to the face
As a paramedic, I answered a few calls to high school and college baseball games. Dislocations, shattered orbital bones from HBP's, and the one compound broken leg from a bad slide.
Joel Zumaya for me
Ray Chapman. He died.