Home plate umpire Nick Mahrley, unfortunately, caught Giancarlo Stanton’s broken bat in the head on Sunday, which put him in a neck brace as his day behind the dish was over.
An unfortunate series of events ended with an MLB umpire in a neck brace and on a stretcher in Sunday’s New York Yankees-Colorado Rockies game in the Bronx.
Giancarlo Stanton’s bat snapped at the handle when he swung at an Austin Gomber pitch with runners on first and second in the bottom of the fifth inning.
The broken bat went backward and smacked home plate umpire Nick Mahrley right in the facemask.
Mahrley immediately went down to one knee, clearly in pain, but he still tried to watch the play unfold as Stanton had a bloop single to left field to force the bases loaded against the Rockies.
