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Thursday, September 06, 2012
OAKLAND, Calif. – Brandon McCarthy, the A’s pitcher who was struck on the right side of his head with a batted ball during yesterday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, underwent surgery last night at a Bay Area hospital. McCarthy, 29, is alert, awake and resting comfortably, and has shown signs of improvement today.
After the incident occurred in the fourth inning yesterday, the A’s pitcher was taken to Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, where a CT Scan revealed an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and skull fracture. Later in the evening, he was transferred to a nearby hospital, where a neurosurgeon performed a second CT scan and clinical examination, and surgery was recommended to relieve pressure from McCarthy’s head.
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1. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: September 07, 2012 at 06:40 AM (#4229025)Um, Brandon. I'm sensitive to this because my name is Brandon, and I've always had some people who mistakenly call me Brian.
So hang in there, Brandon.
And I know he has more important worries right now, but he is an impending FA and was probably due to get a pretty good contract this year for the first time in his career. I hope this doesn't jeopardize that.
Who wouldn't?
Just kidding, best wishes to Brandon for a full and rapid recovery.
You have to wonder if the difference between 1920 and 2012 is the state of modern medicine.
\"#### this hurts. ####. It ####### hurts a lot."
He's been my favourite late-round sleeper pick for the past two years on my fantasy baseball team. I figured this would be the last year I could get him cheap since he's been doing so well (when healthy).
Best of luck to him.
But seriously, hope he ends up okay.
I don't think its guaranteed he ever pitches again, although I sure hope he does.
It really didn't look as bad as some others I've seen, but obviously this one was real trouble.
I hope everything works out.
"The biggest issue we deal with after these type of injuries and this type of procedure, is, from what the physicians explained to us, was that Days 2 and 3 are going to be the hardest days. Obviously, we're coming up on Day 3 tomorrow. So the evening time there is a possibility of having a recurring or the increase of swelling coming back again, and if that were the case, they would need to do some different measures and techniques to try to get that swelling, to keep it down."
As far as what can be expected as McCarthy recovers, Paparesta said it is best to take it in steps.
"First and foremost, we need to look at his life and making sure he stays alive. This is serious stuff and we want him to live," Paparesta said. "I think the next phase that we would look at is him being able to go through and have normal gross motor mechanics and skill set, where he can go through his normal active life and live normally. The third thing would be maybe we put a little bit of time to look into his fine motor skills and see where he is at that point in time."
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