Ex-MLB pitcher particulars terrifying 25-foot fall

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Ben McDonald, the Baltimore Orioles' No. 1 general decide of the 1989 MLB Draft, revealed in a social media put up on Friday he suffered severe accidents after he fell 25 ft from a deer stand.

McDonald posted a video of himself in a hospital mattress as he tried to place the items collectively on what led to his fall.

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Baltimore Orioles pitcher Ben McDonald through the 1990 spring coaching season. (USA At this time Sports activities)

"That is what a extreme concussion appears like and feels like (I nonetheless don’t bear in mind something) Apparently I fell out of a deer stand 25 ft up yesterday morning," he wrote on X.

"I’m high quality and admire everybody checking on me. Very fortunate…. concussion and a pair of cracked vertebra’s…. I’ll be again in #Birdland quickly calling Orioles video games. Thanks all for all (your) ideas and (prayers) and thanks to the docs. See yall quickly."

McDonald is an avid hunter and expressed as a lot in a social media put up in December.

On the time, he wrote that he was hunting when he started to consider his dad. Immediately, an enormous buck approached him, and he was capable of bag him.

"I usually don’t share too lots of my ideas on social however that is too good to not share. I misplaced my dad in January… sitting in a bowstand yesterday having fun with looking season with out him for the primary time gave me an opportunity to mirror on all of the hours we spent collectively on ball fields, basketball courts, and within the deer woods," McDonald wrote. "I used to be having a dialog with him telling him how a lot I miss him and thanking him for all the pieces he did for us and our household and the various sacrifices he made.

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Baltimore Orioles' Ben McDonald pitches in opposition to the Chicago White Sox through the 1993 season at Comiskey Park. (USA At this time Sports activities)

"I had an excellent cry as I want he was nonetheless right here for another looking season or simply to have another discuss…. 5 minutes after I dried my eyes and centered again on the hunt…. out walked an absolute large…. this buck might have gone anyplace within the 6 acre plot however adopted a doe to 24 yards underneath my tree…. the shot was true as he bounded out in the midst of the plot and tipped over in seconds!

"Little doubt this was divine intervention courtesy of the person upstairs and #PawPaw…. the good outside is dwelling for me… it is the place I’m in all probability most comfy! It’s not all the time in regards to the harvest it’s about making reminiscences! This buck will all the time be know as #PawPaw’s Buck!"

McDonald was a star pitcher at LSU earlier than the Orioles chosen him No. 1 general in 1989. He grew to become a reasonably serviceable pitcher in his prime.

He had a 3.91 ERA with 894 strikeouts in 211 appearances. He spent the ultimate two seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers . The ultimate season of his profession was in 1997.

Baltimore Orioles pitcher Ben McDonald in motion in opposition to the Chicago White Sox through the 1993 season at Comiskey Park. (USA At this time Sports activities)