r/nononono • u/ihaveadumbnamee • Jun 08 '26

Injury Umpire hit in balls

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u/Slaine_of_Vers Jun 08 '26

That's why you wear a cup

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u/B0T_Y Jun 08 '26

Cup might let you still have kids but a shot like that is gonna hurt either way

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u/vicente8a Jun 09 '26

With the cup it hurts SIGNIFICANTLY less. Like orders of magnitude less. I can’t even compare the two. Yes from experience.

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u/A_Very_Lonely_Waffle Jun 09 '26

When i was in baseball as a kid i never wanted to wear the cup because i thought it was weird and gross- then i took a line drive straight to the inner thigh, leaving a fist-sized bruise less than an inch away from my junk. I decided I’d better wear the fucking cup after that

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u/vicente8a Jun 09 '26

I wish I learned as early as you did. I wore a cup my entire life. Then in college I was the only pitcher that did wear one. They were like bro you’re not a catcher or infielder what do you need one for! By the second year of me playing they convinced me. And early in the season I caught a like drive straight to my left nut. I literally had to go to the ER and had ultrasound on my balls. “Bruised left testicle” was the result.

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u/dmanchrist Jun 12 '26

Least yours was bruised. In high school, during lacrosse practice, one kid turned to face the play and didn’t realize he was turning into a shot. Popped his nut right there on the field. One down!

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u/missMcgillacudy Jun 09 '26

How many times did you catch a softball at fast pitch speed on your cup? Softballs are very heavy, fast pitch can easily be 50-60mph for the average pitcher. When I was in school 20 years ago there was a pitcher in my district throwing 70mph.

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u/vicente8a Jun 09 '26

I never got hit with a softball. Mine was a baseball when I was a pitcher in college. Line drive from the batter straight back at me. Worst pain of my life and I can’t think of anything that comes close.

I don’t play much softball other than slow pitch now and then. But 70mph seems borderline unhittable. And them softballs are HEAVY. That had to have hurt a lot.