Chris Pollard remembers the sound of his pitcher being hit in the head by a foul ball. He described it as a “splat.”
When a line drive struck his pitcher Nick Hendrix while he was in the dugout two years ago, Pollard couldn’t tell if he was hurt from his fall backward or from the ball hitting him in the head.
“I remember it vividly,” Pollard said. “It made a very distinct, very weird sound, and it just didn’t sound right. When we got back in the locker room after the game, we were starting to go over game notes.