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.
