The ball that left Giancarlo Stanton’s bat, which evidently hit Masahiro Tanaka in the head on a comebacker was soaring at 112 mph. The New York Yankees starting pitcher has never encountered anything as deadly or scary on the mound, and the reaction from Stanton tells the entire story.
The behemoth slugger instantly dropped to the ground in despair, worried for his teammate who was just left motionless in a clump on the mound. Luckily for Stanton, Tanaka is one tough son of a gun, as his concussion symptoms quickly alleviated at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Tanaka was able to go home that very night after scans came back clean and his symptoms tapered off.