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Rewind: Blair debuts after injury sends Vogt to hospital

It’s terrible, it makes you hurt to see it. I didn’t see the replay, I just saw his reaction.

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OAKLAND –- The wait finally ended for Carson Blair to make his major league debut behind the plate, but it came under extremely unfortunate circumstances.

A’s catcher Stephen Vogt left Sunday’s game in the eighth inning after a foul tip caught him squarely in the groin area. He hunched over on his hands and knees, in agony, for several minutes while being attended to, and then needed assistance to walk off the field.