Yankees news: Time to ditch fence that injured Jasson Dominguez? Latest on Anthony Volpe
Can the Yankees make the outfield wall at Yankee Stadium safer? Cody Bellinger addressed that after Jasson Dominguez's injury Thursday. Also, Anthony Volpe's Triple-A struggles continued.
NEW YORK — The undisputed greatest catch at Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies since 2004, produced one of the most gruesome injuries in franchise history, too. On May 11, 2006, the Mets had the bases loaded and two outs when Xander Nady hit a long drive to deep center. Phillies center fielder Aaron Rowand raced back and never slowed down, crashing face-first into the chain-link bullpen fence portion of the center-field wall.
Somehow, Rowand held onto the ball and his club won the game 2-0, but he broke his nose and suffered fractures near his eye. Before getting hurt, Rowand pleaded with Phillies management to make the wall safer, saying: “You need to pad this because I am going to kill myself on this thing. I’ll hit it.
I promise. ” Shortly after Rowand’s injury, padding was added. Just four days short of the 20th anniversary of Rowand’s memorable catch, Yankees left fielder Jasson Dominguez on Thursday crashed headfirst into the bullpen fence that is part of the left-center field wall at Yankee Stadium.
In the first inning of the Yankees’ 9-2 win, Rangers leadoff hitter Brandon Nimmo hit a towering drive to deep left-center field. Dominguez darted back, leaped at the wall and made an amazing catch as his head banged off the chain-link fence . “How do you hold on to that ball?
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