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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: UAK on August 12, 2005, 05:55:18 AM
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:o I'll post the vid if I find it.
(http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/padres/images/050811collide.jpg)
In what may be the scariest collision in Petco Park's young history, Mets outfielder Mike Cameron (44) and Carlos Beltran hit head-to-head while trying to field David Ross' fly in the seventh. Cameron was taken on a stretcher to Mercy Hospital for tests. The play accounted for the tie-breaking run in the Padres' 2-1 victory.
SAN DIEGO – New York Mets right fielder Mike Cameron was taken off the field on a stretcher following a frightening head-to-head collision with center fielder Carlos Beltran in the seventh inning of a 2-1 loss to the Padres on Thursday.
The game was delayed for about 13 minutes after the diving crash. Cameron lay on the field and was tended to by trainers from both teams before being taken to Mercy Hospital.
Cameron broke his nose, had multiple fractures of both cheekbones and a slight concussion, Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz said. Cameron underwent two CT scans and was to be hospitalized overnight. He was placed on the disabled list.
* Cameron taken off field on cart after colliding with Beltran
* Padres-Mets box score
* Padres Insider
Mets assistant general manager Jim Duquette said Beltran was examined by the Padres' doctor at the stadium and "everything came out normal." Beltran was to have a CT scan and then possibly head to Los Angeles to rejoin the Mets, who open a series against the Dodgers on Friday night. Beltran had a sore shoulder and a cut near his left temple.
"I don't remember anything of what happened," Beltran said. "I don't remember how it happened, I know we got hit. I feel like I got hit by a train."
Beltran said he felt lucky.
"Of course, after a collision like that, I feel good that I'm OK. My shoulder feels sore, but I'll be fine."
Cameron lifted up his head at one point, and shielded his eyes from the sun as he was put onto a stretcher by paramedics, lifted onto a cart and driven off the field. He was immobilized and put in a neck brace.
Team officials said Cameron was alert and talking on the way to the hospital. No other details were immediately available.
First baseman Marlon Anderson was the first player to reach the fallen outfielders.
Cameron "was dazed, kind of not really there," Anderson said. "I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' He mumbled, 'Yeah,' but he wasn't there. You could tell he wasn't right.
"I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck," Anderson said.
"I couldn't go over there, man," left fielder Cliff Floyd said. "Once I saw the blood, I'm not good with blood.
"It choked me up for a minute," Floyd said. "We were laughing and giggling one minute, the next minute, a man's down on the ground, both of them."
Cameron moved from center field to right field during spring training to accommodate Beltran, who signed as a free agent in the offseason, so both play with the same mentality.
"I knew those guys were so competitive," Floyd said. "You try to block that out when they run together, two center fielders. They're taught to chase the ball. They're taught to give it everything."
Beltran got up after a few minutes after the collision and walked off the field on his own power. He left the game with a sore left shoulder and a cut on the face.
Both fielders went after a sinking liner by pinch-hitter David Ross with one out and the score tied at 1. Cameron was completely stretched out diving for the ball when he and Beltran collided, falling into a heap.
Neither caught the ball, which went for a triple. Shortstop Chris Woodward sprinted out to get the ball and throw it into the infield.
When play resumed, Eric Young grounded out to second with the infield playing in, before Joe Randa singled to center to score Ross with the go-ahead run.
"There's always things that happen from time to time that put baseball into perspective for everybody, and this is certainly one of those instances," said starter Tom Glavine, who sat on his haunches on the back of the mound while Cameron and Beltran were tended to. "The game, as much as you want to win it, it's kind of secondary to how those guys are doing, especially Cam.
"It stinks that we lost and it stinks that one of our buddies got hurt," Glavine said.
The Padres were shaken, too.
"It was as scary a moment that you can have on the field," manager Bruce Bochy said. "Our thoughts are with them."
Said Young: "For those guys to be extended like that and going after the ball and seeing their bodies laid out like that, it has to rate as one of the toughest ones to see."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/padres/20050811-1519-bbn-mets-padres.html
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That was jsut sick. Vin Scully said it was the worse collision he has seen and hes been around the game longer than the actual game has been around lol
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^^ for real, I heard Scully say it too, you know it must be horrible then
that shit sucked, they both dove going full speed and collided heads and landed on each other as if they were dead :o
you never like to see that shit happen, no matter who :-\
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holy fuck...I just saw the video replay...damn :-\