NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, March 21, 2014, 3:47 PM
Jae C. Hong/AP Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman tells his fans that everything is fine after surgery.
Aroldis Chapman, the flame-throwing Cuban reliever who was hit in the face on Wednesday by a line drive in a spring training game, had successful surgery to fix a broken bone above his left eye on Thursday night.
And to prove he had a procedure done, Chapman posted a photo of the staples that were inserted into his head on his Instagram account Friday afternoon.
"My fans(,) everything is fine (,) thanks to God we are already out of any kind of trouble(.) I’m here waiting for them to give me my release," Chapman wrote to his followers.
Mark Sheldon/AP Aroldis Champman is taken off the field Wednesday night after taking a line drive to the head.
According to the Cincinnati Reds, Chapman had a titanium plate embedded in his head to steady the pain related to the fracture. Despite the gruesomeness of the injury, Chapman only has a slight concussion and miraculously could begin throwing a baseball in two weeks and could even pitch in a game in perhaps a month.
Chapman is scheduled to remain in a hospital in Phoenix, where the surgery was done, for perhaps another couple days. The ball that hit Chapman came off the bat of the Royals' Salvador Perez in the sixth inning of Wednesday’s game. Chapman immediately hit the ground and could be seen kicking his feet in pain upon impact.
The incident has sparked further debate about protecting pitchers from similar injuries. This past winter, Major League Baseball reached an agreement for protective caps to be available to pitchers in the wake of a number of scary injuries to pitchers in recent years. But as Andy Martino reported in Friday's Daily News, pitchers have yet to get their hands on the protective gear.
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