Take It For the Team

During last night's game, a hard grounder was hit near me at second base. As I scooted to my right to backhand it, it took a wicked hop and impacted my forearm at high velocity. I won't mince words that it hurt like all heck. But today, I sport a really funky badge of honor for taking it for the team:




Those eight red dots are courtesy of the stitches on the ball.

It still hurts to move my fingers around. But stitch-mark imprints are just too cool.