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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, August 24, 2021The incredible story of Ray Caldwell, the MLB pitcher who survived a lightning strike to finish a game
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Posted: August 24, 2021 at 09:11 AM | 14 comment(s)
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1. Howie Menckel Posted: August 24, 2021 at 11:30 AM (#6035984)51 weeks later, Chapman felt a pitch hit his skull.
some of the same Indians players were on hand for both unique occurences.
C Steve O'Neill
2B Bill Wambsganss
3B Larry Gardner
CF Tris Speaker
RF Elmer Smith
just six weeks after Chapman died, Wambsganss achieved the first World Series unassisted triple play and Smith whacked the first grand slam in a World Series - in the same game!
also had not realized that the newly-married Chapman was widely expected to retire at the end of the 1920 season.
#misseditbythatmuch
I was pitching to my brother Jeff and lighting struck the metal backstop behind the plate. Jeff collapsed from the shock but got up a moment later and helped me get home because I was blinded for several minutes by the flash.
He was using a wood bat. If he'd been using an aluminum bat he would surely have fried.
So I figured I'd better look up what I was supposed to do. According to the website I checked it was:
(a) lightning can strike about half an hour before and after a storm
(b) avoid tall trees
(c) find a rock that's slightly elevated above the ground (or use your backpack if necessary)
(d) squat on your toes to minimize your surface area of contact with the ground and make yourself as short as possible
(e) remember -- maintain this position for 30 minutes before the storm, the entire storm and 30 minutes after the storm
Ha Ha! Even Yadi Molina can't stay in a crouch for 90+ minutes. I'd die from the leg cramps, lightning would be a less painful death.
(Note steps a-e are not offered as advice, I am not a hiker, use at your own peril. I offer only for the entertainment of the impossibility of squatting for 90+ minutes.)
"Fellas, here's what you do. Calmly go to your bag and choose a certain club, then raise it high above your head as the lightning nears. Don't panic, because I have good news for you: "Even GOD can't hit a 1-iron!"
Actually, rule #1, way above everything else on your list would be to get off the ridge. Drop elevation as much as possible, if you are unable to do that for some reason, or are otherwise still exposed, that's when you go with c (absolutely do not use your backpack if it's the external metal frame style), d, & e.
Don't know if any team's kept losing more games for 6 or more straight years, but it wouldn't surprise me, even though most teams have a dead cat bounce after a few years of decline.
The absolute worst thing you can do is the thing everybody does which is to run into the mouth of a cave opening. Apparently, that’s the best way to get hit
Of course sitting on a rock in an open field in a thunderstorm feels very exposed. It’s hard for people to accept that this is the best answer. It’s scary as hell and if you’ve ever had to do it, you’ll pay much closer attention to the weather in the future. It’s made worse by the half of your group that shelters in the cave who are laughing at you for your stupidity.
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