Nobody to blame. Hunter Dozier was just ducking his head to avoid hitting Yasmani Grandal on a high, but dumb little pop up barely 10 feet down the first base line. After ducking his head to get past Mr. Grandal, Mr. Dozier lifted his head up and the first thing he saw was Jose Abreu hard charging the pop-up as both players full on collided with each other, Full speed for Jose Abreu, plus half speed for Dozier, full, head on contact with each other.
In retrospect, everything happened so quickly I am not sure how this accident could have been prevented. When I was in little league there were two infield rules our coaches told us, don't let the pitcher catch a pop-up, ever, and, if an infielder and catcher can get to the same pop-up, let the infielder catch the ball because they are not dealing with a mask, whether to throw the mask off or not, and if there are runners on base let the catcher can get back to home plate just in case the ball is not caught.
Having said that, a little part of me is wondering, why not just cover first base, Jose, and if the ball is dropped, there might still be time to make a throw to first base.
I wonder if this scenario has ever happened before in the past 125 years of Baseball, probably not. That is what makes Baseball so amazing, year after year somethings happens that has never happened before.
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