BALTIMORE – As reporters gathered around Juan Uribe's locker after he was hit in the head by a 93 mph fastball Friday night, he turned around and looked each one of them in the eyes and said, "Now I'm crazy. Now I want to kill somebody."
Then Uribe laughed. So did everyone else.
Uribe was hit in the helmet and left cheek by a 93 mph fastball from Baltimore right-hander Odrisamer Despaigne while leading off the seventh inning at Camden Yards. He never went down, but he walked out of the batter's box and bent at the waist as manager Terry Francona and trainers James Quinlan and Michael Salazar rushed to check on him.