{"id":123342,"date":"2025-06-22T18:24:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/123342\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T18:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:24:34","slug":"tampa-bays-rays-pitcher-hunter-bigge-hit-in-face-by-105-mph-foul-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/123342\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bays Rays Pitcher Hunter Bigge Hit In Face By 105 MPH Foul Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Rays&#8217; Hunter Bigge<br \/>\n                          Hit In Face By 105 MPH Foul Ball<br \/>\n                          &#8230; Stretchered Off The Field<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published June 20, 2025 7:42 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250620_4299e0701de34840ae5a58e99729e6db\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:66ae21ad-6009-473c-b2d1-ba059c27ae73\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4299e0701de34840ae5a58e99729e6db_md.jpg\" alt=\"hunter bigge tampa rays hit ball injury main getty x composite 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scary scene at Thursday&#8217;s Tampa Bay Rays game &#8230; one of their pitchers, Hunter Bigge, took a line drive foul ball to the face while he was in the dugout &#8212; leading to him being carted off the field.<\/p>\n<p>It all went down during the top of the 7th inning. Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman turned on a 3-2 pitch (he was way ahead of it) from Connor Seabold, sending the baseball directly at Bigge&#8217;s face at 105 MPH, knocking him off his feet.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">jesus man that was ugly. view from the stands from fans in front of me. hope he\u2019s okay. took a pretty nasty fall afterwards too. stretchers out. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#rays<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tg7dXoKNZl\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Tg7dXoKNZl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 tristan (@elyankeelover) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elyankeelover\/status\/1935876696021848408?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 20, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elyankeelover\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@elyankeelover<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ruthschman and Gunnar Henderson, who were in the on-deck circle, immediately reacted to the scary situation. The broadcast caught fans and players on both sides concerned for the Harvard graduate as medical professionals tended to him.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, as he was getting loaded onto the stretcher, Bigge gave the crowd a thumbs-up before being taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Horrible scene in Tampa, as Rays pitcher Hunter Bigge was hit in the face by a 105 mph foul ball while in the dugout.<\/p>\n<p>He was stretchered off the field and gave a thumbs up as he exited.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Brown on the Orioles TV call for MASN. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MLB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#MLB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FtkaA52oaC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/FtkaA52oaC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1935882536955367599?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 20, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@awfulannouncing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During his postgame press conference, Rays manager Kevin Cash <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/rays\/video\/cash-and-rasmussen-on-hunter-bigge-s-injury\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Bigge was coherent and talking to the physician &#8212; and that he would be monitored as the night progressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You feel for Hunter and his wife,&#8221; Cash said. &#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine what she and he were going through right there. It was scary for everybody, none more than them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the saying goes, the game must go on &#8230; and that&#8217;s exactly what happened (though everyone&#8217;s thoughts were with HB). The Orioles won the game 4-1 against their AL East rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you get well soon, Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rays&#8217; Hunter Bigge Hit In Face By 105 MPH Foul Ball &#8230; Stretchered Off The Field Published June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4,169,297,185,317,2550,68,2551,2549,1564],"class_list":{"0":"post-123342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-rays","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-news","14":"tag-tampa-bay","15":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","16":"tag-tampabay","17":"tag-tampabayrays","18":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114728420433527521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123342","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=123342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}