Evansville baseball outfielder Ty Rumsey had a scary moment during the Knoxville Super Regional on Friday.
The Purple Aces center fielder went to catch a fly ball right off Tennessee’s No. 1 seed Blake Burke. However, before he could recover the ball, he collided with the right-center field wall; the ball also ricocheted off the wall and hit Rumsey in the face.
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Burke notched the RBI double as Christian Moore came in to score to put the Vols back up 6-5 in the bottom of the fifth inning. Meanwhile, the action in the game stopped when coaches came to check on Rumsey, who appeared to have blood near the side of his eye.
Fortunately for the Purple Aces, Rumsey looked fine and stayed in the game until the end of the fifth inning despite the scary collision. However, in the top of the sixth inning, Brodie Peart homered for Rumsey in the ninth, ending Rumsey’s night. Rumsey entered the Knoxville Super Regional with a .274 batting average with seven home runs, 26 RBIs and 16 of 18 in stolen base attempts.
According to Michael Gross of Evansville’s Eyewitness News, Rumsey’s initial diagnosis was a shoulder injury. Gross tweeted Friday evening that “initial consensus was not great” on the injury.
This story will be updated.
