Mariners' Announcer Rick Rizzs Had A Scary Moment In The Booth When A Foul Ball Hit Him In The Head While Live On Air

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Tough go of it recently for Seattle Mariners' announcer Rick Rizzs. He was behind the mic for their game on Monday when a ball was fouled back and smoked Rizzs right in the head. Scary situation for anyone, but especially in Spring Training because it's not even close to as big as a real MLB ballpark, those broadcast booths are pretty close to the action, Rizzs had no real chance to get out of the way of the screamer. Take a listen to the broadcast and you can hear how scary it was. 

He couldn't even finish his sentence and he was hit. Sounded like he went down like a pile of bricks too. The moans and groans don't sound fun at all, but neither did his broadcast partner asking "did it get you?" over and over while he's obviously sitting there in pain. I mean you're right there too bud, I'm sure you watched as it wizzed up into the booth like a bottle rocket. You can hear him groaning in pain, of course it hit him! 0 awareness from his broadcast partner, going to be a tough year for those 2 if this is how spring is going. They cut the feed mid-inning and went to break so the medical team could work on Rizzs and he turned out to be okay, but like I said earlier, it's always scary when those balls come screaming back at you. That's just a tough SOB right there. Hockey announcer probably misses a week or 2, not Rizzs though. 

No major injury or concussion for Rizzs so he was good to go. Rizzs did say he remembered the whole play which was a good sign and said he turned his head to move out of the way and ended up taking it off the back of the head and fell to the ground. Got up, dusted himself off and threw the headset back on once the medics said he was fine but you obviously have to get checked out to make sure everything is fine. That will keep ya awake up in the booth too I bet. Go figure that it's not just the players who battle through injures in spring as well, broadcasters have it just as bad.