Umpire Mike Muchlinski hit directly in groin by Santiago Casilla fastball (Video)
Mike Muchlinski didn’t exactly have the most pleasant Thursday afternoon.
Muchlinski was umpiring home plate in the ninth inning of the Oakland Athletics-Minnesota Twins game when A’s catcher Stephen Vogt, who was setting up outside, got fooled by a Santiago Casilla pitch and it hit Muchlinski right in the groin before Vogt could get a glove up.
Umpire takes pitch directly to the ?s pic.twitter.com/M2ywTurCId
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) May 4, 2017
That can’t have felt good.
Brian Murphy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that it was a 94-mph fastball that Muchlinski took square in the crown jewels but that he remarkably stayed in the game after taking a drink of water.
Home plate umpire Mike Muchlinski just absorbed unchecked 94-mph fastball to the crotch. Takes a gulp of water. Will now signal all strikes
— Brian Murphy (@murphPPress) May 4, 2017
Regardless though, Vogt was probably the one who felt worst of all, considering that he has been there before.
