DENVER (AP) — AT&T Sportsnet reporter Kelsey Wingert says she’s getting better after being struck within the head by means of a line force all through the 9th inning of the Colorado Rockies’ sport in opposition to the San Francisco Giants previous this week.
“I took a 95 MPH line force to my head,” Wingert mentioned in a tweet, in conjunction with a photograph that confirmed a row of stitches on her brow.
Wingert, who covers the Rockies, used to be within the digital camera way past the Rockies’ first-base dugout on Monday evening. Giants outfielder Austin Slater fouled a ball off Rockies reliever Daniel Bard and the ball hit Wingert.
Wingert mentioned she spent 5 hours in a health center, the place checks printed no fractures or inside bleeding. She mentioned she “won inside & exterior stitches.”
Wingert additionally used to be hit by means of a nasty ball in 2018, when she used to be overlaying the Atlanta Braves for Fox Sports activities South. She suffered a damaged proper eye socket when she used to be struck by means of a nasty ball from Odubel Herrera of the Philadelphia Phillies.