Had Dan Straily been wearing a Kevlar vest beneath his jersey, perhaps the hard blow to his chest might not have caused he and the Marlins so so much harm. But Eric Hosmer’s 109.9 mph liner struck the defenseless pitcher like a missile.
After being knocked to his knees, a shaken Straily somehow recovered and continued to pitch. But the Padres continued their assault on Straily with three runs in the first in an eventual 5-4 win at Marlins Park.
While the Marlins were able to recover from the early deficit and tie the score in the sixth, Travis Jankowski's two-out, bases-loaded single in the eighth off Drew Rucinski thwarted the comeback.