He could close his eyes and hit his throwing partner in the chest. That still came natural. The accident had not stripped that. Then Matt Imhof opened his left eye — his only working eye — and tried to catch the baseball.
He knew he had to decide where the ball was headed and when to close his glove with half of the information he had before. He knew he had no shot if the ball came straight at him. The white orb was more of a blur than before. It looked choppier.
“I don’t catch it all the time,” the former second-round pick said.