Ryan Freel Is OK After a Scary Collision

After signing a contract extension six weeks ago, Ryan Freel joked that it meant he could afford to be even crazier than normal on the baseball field. Everyone laughed it off then, but Freel created quite a scary moment on the field in Cincy today when he collided with Norris Hopper and stayed down on the field for like fifteen minutes because being taken off on a stretcher and out of Great American Ballpark in an ambulance.

Anytime a player has to leave the field on a stretcher is a scary thing, but reports now say that Freel is going to be alright after suffering only contusions to his head and neck. Yeah, I said "only" head and neck contusions. After seeing replays, yeah, Freel is lucky things weren't worse. He ran into Hopper at full speed with his head twisting at a funny angle, then fell unbroken onto the warning track.

Oh yeah, and Freel made the catch. After colliding with Norris Hopper at full speed and hitting him so hard that he lost feeling in his extremities (which he's since regained) and may have actually knocked himself unconscious (he laid motionless on the field for quite some time after the play), he still held on an made the catch. This is why everyone loves Ryan Freel.

Previously at the Fanhouse
Ryan Freel Can Afford To Be Crazier