You may have seen images of Maikel Franco from last night, down on the ground after getting hit by a pitch. This may have alarmed you. You may have canceled your Friday night plans, grabbed your go bag you keep on-hand for this situation exactly, ignored your family’s eye-rolling and calls of “Christ, not this again,” and headed into the wilderness to live forever, subsisting on a diet of twigs and poison berries because what is even the point anymore.
Obviously, that’s an overstatement. You didn’t have any Friday night plans. But Franco being in obvious pain after being hit by a pitch on the same wrist to which he sustained an injury last year was upsetting for people whether they were out “going Pokemon” or not (or whatever the kids are doing these days).