Most professional baseball players spend time before the game stretching and preparing for their upcoming battle, but when you’re the Baltimore Orioles you haven’t had much to play for since the first couple of weeks of the season.
The worst team in baseball opened a three-game series against the Rays in Tampa Bay on Friday night and they showed why they’re 59 games below .500 both before and during the game. During the pre-game warm-ups, members of the Orioles pitching staff decided to run some routes in the outfield and David Hess ended up on the wrong side of a pretty simple toss.
Hess made an attempt to grab the pass in the outfield, but the pass was too powerful for him to handle and it ended up going right through his hands and smoked him in the face.
As a result of the freak injury, Hess’ Orioles teammates presented him with an LSU football helmet during the second inning and told him he had to wear it in the dugout to prevent any other freak injuries.
"I could not entirely tell you where the LSU helmet came from," Hess told MLB.com's Brittany Ghiroli. "It appeared in the second inning and I was told to wear it, so I wore it."
The Orioles rookie has appeared in 82 innings over 17 games this season and owns a 3-9 record to go with a 5.27 ERA and 55 strikeouts.
(H/T Twitter/Cut4)
