PHOENIX -- Hours after he took a 115-mph line drive to his face last week, D-backs pitcher Archie Bradley was making jokes at his own expense. Sulking about his unfortunate, nearly tragic situation wasn't going to help him heal faster.
Bradley last Friday brought that same mentality to Nick Shumaker, a 14-year-old from Phoenix who was struck by a line drive the day before Bradley. The D-backs rookie visited Shumaker at Phoenix Children's Hospital and on Saturday gave Shumaker and his family the royal treatment at Chase Field before the D-backs played the Padres.
"[Nick] didn't have a lot of drive [while in the hospital], but after Archie left, we couldn't keep him in bed.