Marlins' Ryan Weathers struck in head by catcher's warmup throw in bizarre moment vs. Rays

Marlins starter Ryan Weathers was drilled successful the caput by a propulsion down to 2nd basal aft tossing his last warmup transportation betwixt innings during a Miami Marlins-Tampa Bay Rays crippled Saturday.

As is customary betwixt innings, the catcher volition propulsion the shot down to 2nd basal to signifier for a imaginable bargain concern during the frame. 

But Marlins catcher Nick Fortes’ propulsion to 2nd caught Weathers close successful the head, and Weathers dropped rapidly to the mound. 

Weathers was intelligibly successful pain, and trainers emerged to analyse the left-hander. 

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Miami Marlins starting pitcher Ryan Weathers (35) throws a transportation against the Tampa Bay Rays successful the 3rd inning astatine George M. Steinbrenner Field. (Nathan Ray Seebeck/Imagn Images)

Weathers shook disconnected the stroke and stayed successful the game. He threw a cleanable archetypal inning with conscionable 8 pitches. 

However, Weathers was removed from his commencement aft 3 innings for "precautionary reasons" aft throwing conscionable 57 pitches. 

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The Marlins said Weathers would beryllium further evaluated.

Miami has struggled truthful acold this play with a 24-38 grounds contempt an 11-10 triumph implicit Tampa Bay Saturday. 

Miami Marlins starting pitcher Ryan Weathers (35) is examined by a trainer aft being deed successful the caput by an errant propulsion from Miami Marlins catcher Nick Fortes against the Tampa Bay Rays successful the archetypal inning astatine George M. Steinbrenner Field. (Nathan Ray Seebeck/Imagn Images)

They were conscionable swept by the Colorado Rockies, who person the worst grounds successful MLB by acold (12-51 arsenic of Saturday).

Weathers has a 2.49 ERA implicit 4 starts (21⅔ innings pitched), giving up conscionable 15 hits implicit those starts and six earned runs with 22 strikeouts and 7 walks. 

This is Weathers’ 5th MLB season aft opening his vocation with the San Diego Padres. He struggled to commencement his vocation earlier being traded to Miami during the 2023 campaign. 

Miami Marlins starting pitcher Ryan Weathers (35) dropped to the mound aft being deed successful the caput by an errant propulsion from Miami Marlins catcher Nick Fortes (4) against the Tampa Bay Rays successful the archetypal inning astatine George M. Steinbrenner Field. (Nathan Ray Seebeck/Imagn Images)

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Weathers unlocked thing successful Miami, pitching to a 3.63 ERA successful 16 starts successful 2024. He seems to person picked up wherever helium near disconnected earlier this scary incidental successful his latest outing. 

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