Update on Oakland A's Chris Bassit:

[Auggie]

CHICAGO — A’s pitcher Chris Bassitt sustained a facial fracture that will require surgery but tests on his right eye and and head showed no further injuries after he was struck by a line drive Tuesday night, the A’s said in an update Wednesday morning.

Bassitt received stitches for two facial lacerations and has a displaced tripod fracture in his right cheek that will require surgery, the A’s said.

Bassitt’s right eye is “normal for vision” and “a head CT scan revealed no further injury,” per the A’s, who said Bassitt was released from Rush University Medical Center on Tuesday night.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/A-s-Bassitt-suffered-facial-fracture-in-line-16395269.php

[luvs2sing]

1. Lucky guy..

[Dave in VA]

2. Very good news

n/t

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Thank goodness.

I saw video of that injury earlier. Absolutely frightening. Glad he’ll be OK.

[brush]

4. Time for pitchers to wear helmets. Hockey goalies used to play sans-helmet...

until goalies took the initiative and started creating their own protection.

Baseball catchers wears protection, as do the batter and umpire. A pitcher could wear a helmet similar to a batter's helmet with an added grill covering the face.

It's a no-brainer. Should've been done long ago.