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Missouri softball pitcher taken to hospital after taking line drive off head (Video)

By Josh Hill

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Softball isn’t known as a dangerous sport, but it can be terrifying to watch when things go wrong and line drives become deadly. 

It’s not often that you see gruesome injuries in baseball and softball, as they’re non-contact sports that typically feature injuries from tripping or sliding into a base the wrong way. But the biggest danger in both sports is taking a line drive off your head — something we’ve seen far too much of lately.

It’s incidental at best, which is what makes it one of the most terrifying elements of the game. We saw the force of that on Sunday afternoon in Game 2 of the NCAA Softball Tournament Super Regionals between Missouri and UCLA.

Missouri pitcher Tori Finucane took a line drive off her head and was taken to the hospital for further medical attention.

Just one look at the incident shows you all you need to know about how scary the play was:

Finucane appears as though she’ll recover, but this further highlights how dangerous the sport of softball can be, despite your sexist views on something like this. It’s the internet, we can fully expect someone to say something stupid about this incident, but there are other things we should worry about.

It also highlights how dangerous composite bats are, as they take an already hard ball and turn it from a cannon ball into a laser beam. Getting hit int he head off a wood bat is bat enough, but slapping a hard, tightly would ball with a piece of metal has bad idea written all over it.

Baseball die hards foam at the mouth over traditionalist things like using wooden bats, and it’s a discussion that needs to be brought up once again in wake of this incident.

Of course, the bat doesn’t have anything to do with the ball hitting Finucane, but the damage done might not be as terrible.

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