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Ben McDonald, the Baltimore Orioles’ No. 1 total choose of the 1989 MLB Draft, revealed in a social media put up on Friday he suffered critical accidents after he fell 25 ft from a deer stand.
McDonald posted a video of himself in a hospital mattress as he tried to place the items collectively on what led to his fall.
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Baltimore Orioles pitcher Ben McDonald throughout the 1990 spring coaching season. (USA At the moment Sports activities)
“That is what a extreme concussion seems to be like and feels like (I nonetheless don’t keep in mind something) Apparently I fell out of a deer stand 25 ft up yesterday morning,” he wrote on X.
“I’m wonderful and admire everybody checking on me. Very fortunate…. concussion and a pair of cracked vertebra’s…. I’ll be again in #Birdland quickly calling Orioles video games. Thanks all for all (your) ideas and (prayers) and thanks to the docs. See yall quickly.”
McDonald is an avid hunter and expressed as a lot in a social media put up in December.
On the time, he wrote that he was looking when he started to consider his dad. All of the sudden, an enormous buck approached him, and he was in a position to bag him.
“I usually don’t share too lots of my ideas on social however that is too good to not share. I misplaced my dad in January… sitting in a bowstand yesterday having fun with looking season with out him for the primary time gave me an opportunity to replicate on all of the hours we spent collectively on ball fields, basketball courts, and within the deer woods,” McDonald wrote. “I used to be having a dialog with him telling him how a lot I miss him and thanking him for every thing he did for us and our household and the numerous sacrifices he made.
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Baltimore Orioles’ Ben McDonald pitches in opposition to the Chicago White Sox throughout the 1993 season at Comiskey Park. (USA At the moment Sports activities)
“I had an excellent cry as I want he was nonetheless right here for another looking season or simply to have another speak…. 5 minutes after I dried my eyes and centered again on the hunt…. out walked an absolute big…. this buck may have gone wherever within the 6 acre plot however adopted a doe to 24 yards beneath my tree…. the shot was true as he bounded out in the midst of the plot and tipped over in seconds!
“Little question this was divine intervention courtesy of the person upstairs and #PawPaw…. the good open air is dwelling for me… it is the place I’m in all probability most comfy! It’s not all the time concerning the harvest it’s about making reminiscences! This buck will all the time be know as #PawPaw’s Buck!”
McDonald was a star pitcher at LSU earlier than the Orioles chosen him No. 1 total in 1989. He grew to become a reasonably serviceable pitcher in his prime.
He had a 3.91 ERA with 894 strikeouts in 211 appearances. He spent the ultimate two seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers. The ultimate season of his profession was in 1997.
Baltimore Orioles pitcher Ben McDonald in motion in opposition to the Chicago White Sox throughout the 1993 season at Comiskey Park. (USA At the moment Sports activities)
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He’s at present a shade commentator for MASN and on Orioles’ radio broadcasts.
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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox Information Digital.
