TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Hunter Bigge was carted off the field in a frightening scene Thursday night after he was struck by a foul ball in the dugout.<\/p>\n
In the top of the seventh inning, Baltimore Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman fouled a pitch into the Rays dugout and it hit Bigge, a 27-year-old right-hander currently on the injured list.<\/p>\n
Emergency medical personnel quickly arrived to attend to Bigge. After several quiet minutes as Rays players knelt in the field, Bigge was placed on a backboard and carted off.<\/p>\n
Bigge, on the IL with a lat strain, gave a thumbs-up gesture as the Steinbrenner Field crowd rose for a standing ovation. The game resumed after an eight-minute delay with Baltimore leading 4-1.<\/p>\n
The Chicago Cubs selected Bigge in the 12th round of the 2019 draft from Harvard, and he made his major-league debut for them<\/a> on July 9, 2024. He was traded 19 days later<\/a> to the Rays along with Christopher Morel and minor-leaguer Ty Johnson for All-Star third baseman Isaac Paredes.<\/p>\n Bigge has a 2.51 ERA and one save in 32 career appearances, including one start. This season he has a 2.40 ERA in 13 relief outings covering 15 innings.<\/p>\n Originally Published: June 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Hunter Bigge was carted off the field in a frightening scene…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[47,5,24,891,11623,893,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-117479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-christopher-morel","12":"tag-hunter-bigge","13":"tag-isaac-paredes","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-rays","16":"tag-tampa-bay","17":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","18":"tag-tampabay","19":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114714642249001463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}