GCL Met Manuel Hilario

[seawolf17]

Whoa.

http://macksmets.blogspot.com/2014/08/injured-1b-manuel-hilario.html

GCL Mets 1B Manuel Hilario was injured in a horrific collision today that was so bad, that the game was suspended. No further details.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nothing Hilario about that.

[seawolf17]

An injury has to be really horrific for them to suspend a game.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He was motionless after a collisioon and then seizured, according to Rubey. Was airlifted to hospital.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Channel 47 News wrote: A minor league baseball player hurt on the field in Brevard County was flown to the hospital in the middle of a game Friday afternoon at the Washington Nationals' rookie league practice complex in Viera. It happened just before 2 p.m. in the bottom of the 4th inning, as the Gulf Coast League Nationals were taking on Port St. Lucie's GCL Mets. A local team representative said a Mets player slid into second base, and his head collided with the knee of the Nationals' shortstop, who was covering the bag. The injured player, identified by ESPN as Manuel Hilario, began convulsing after the collision. Hilario is a 22-year-old first baseman from the Dominican Republic. Paramedics arrived on scene and called in a medical helicopter, which landed on the field. The player was taken to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne. His condition was not immediately released. The game was suspended and is scheduled to continue Saturday at 10 a.m.

[Frayed Knot]

Games in the GCL usually involve a minimum of paying fans--the friends and family plan is more like it--so suspending a game in that league would probably be done quicker there than it would in higher levels.
But, even having said that, this situation sounds pretty scary.

[seawolf17]

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140822&content_id=90893612&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb

The Mets' statement reads, in full: "In the fourth inning of today's Gulf Coast League game, first baseman Manuel Hilario slid into second base (feet first), colliding with the Nationals [second baseman]. He took a knee to the head and immediately began to experience seizures and remained unresponsive. After treatment on the field, he was airlifted to an area hospital via helicopter. At the hospital he was administered a CT scan, which appears to be normal. He is talkative, in good spirits and could be discharged tomorrow."

Well, that's good news.