ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Yankees-Angels game was delayed in the top of the sixth inning Wednesday night after Ben Rice roped a foul ball into the first base camera well and appeared to hit a photographer in the head.
The Yankees medical staff, including director of sports medicine and rehab Mike Schuck, jumped in to tend to the photographer while head trainer Tim Lentych called for a cart as the crowd went quiet after the scary scene.
After a delay of about 10 minutes, the photographer walked under his own power (with a neck brace) to a medical cart, where Rice was waiting to shake his hand before he was driven off.
The ball came off Rice’s bat at 79.5 mph, a low line drive that went right through the far opening to the stairs in the Yankees dugout and plunked the photographer.
Once the cart left the field, Angels lefty Reid Detmers threw a few warmup pitches before the game resumed, with Rice ultimately flying out to center field on the ninth pitch of his at-bat.
