Padres hurler Adam Eaton just wanted to kick back and watch a movie. Little did he realize, a few hours later, he'd star in his own thriller at the local emergency room.
Eaton accidentally stabbed himself in the stomach with a paring knife while trying to unwrap a DVD a few years ago.
Eaton described the move as "boneheaded." In in his defence, those fussy plastic wrappers are tricky to bust into. But talk about coming in with the heavy artillery.
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Steve Sparks This injury falls under the "don't try this at home" category.
Sparks, a well-travelled knuckleballer, once attended a motivational speaking seminar hosted by the Brewers. The group ripped phone books in half and blew up hot water bottles.
Sparks was apparently fired up by the session, so much so that he tried to tear a phone book of his own. Bad idea.
The right-hander dislocated his shoulder while performing the stunt.
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Legend has it former slugger Kevin Mitchell suffered a couple of the strangest food-related injuries in baseball history.
On one occasion, Mitchell was placed on the disabled list after apparently straining rib muscles while vomiting. And, according to ESPN.com, Mitchell was four days late for 1990 spring training when he was hurt eating a microwaved donut.
Soon after eating the sweet delicacy, Mitchell – so the story goes – needed a root canal.
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Boggs was a master at stroking hits and winning batting titles. But on at least one occasion, he should've skipped batting practice in favour of footwear instruction.
The soon-to-be Hall of Famer once strained his back while slipping on a pair of cowboy boots.
The ailment kept Boggs out of the lineup for seven games.
But the best one has to be the Glenallen Hill one. Here is a link for anyone who wants to read some other ones.
Two classics, the first one funny and the second definitely not funny:
March 2, 2002, SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- San Francisco Giants second baseman Jeff Kent broke a bone in his left wrist while washing his truck and will miss 4-to-6 weeks.
Kent, the 2000 NL MVP, revealed the injury to Giants trainer Stan Conte on Saturday morning after swelling and soreness set in overnight.
Kent, who owns a white pick up with 4-inch lifts, was at a self-serve car wash in Scottsdale when he hurt himself Friday evening. He slipped and broke the vancular bone when he tried to break his fall.
"I was straddling the back of my truck when I slipped and fell," said Kent. "I didn't think much of it at the time and finished washing my truck. It started swelling up during the night and got really sore."
Dodger catcher Steve Yeager In 1976, Yeager was injured when a piece of Bill Russell's bat shattered and hit him in the neck as he was waiting on deck, piercing his esophagus. He had nine pieces of wood taken out of his neck in 98 minutes of surgery.
Yeager later invented the catcher's throat protector flap that hangs from the catcher's mask, which he began wearing after the life-threatening incident.
File this one under strange but true baseball stories. The Yankees were losing 13-1 in Oakland on May 26th, 1985 so backup outfielder Henry Cotto decided it was a good time to clean his ears. Obviously his mother never told him that sticking a q-tip in your ear is a bad idea … especially in a baseball dugout.
Ken Griffey Sr. accidentally bumped Cotto’s arm and… boom… a punctured eardrum. Cotto was out of action until September. It was the most bizarre injury to a New York baseball player since Giant Freddie Fitzsimmons flattened his own fingers underneath the rocking chair he was sitting in back in 1927 although Cotto would be supplanted in 1988 when Met Bobby Ojeda clipped off his fingertip along with a hedge.
jcde7ago wrote:Well i don't know if this counts as an "accident" necessarily, but when Craig Monroe was hit in the crotch by a pitch, i nearly died laughing after watching the vid...
Notice the loud "POP!" sound right after he's hit, and then his reaction. I can't even imagine the excruciating pain he had to go through, but boy did i have more respect for Monroe after taking that pitch
jcde7ago wrote:Well i don't know if this counts as an "accident" necessarily, but when Craig Monroe was hit in the crotch by a pitch, i nearly died laughing after watching the vid...
Notice the loud "POP!" sound right after he's hit, and then his reaction. I can't even imagine the excruciating pain he had to go through, but boy did i have more respect for Monroe after taking that pitch
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