Twins’ Kyle Farmer Present process Surgical procedure To Realign Tooth After Hit By Pitch

Minnesota Twins shortstop Kyle Farmer will likely be spending a number of surprising hours in a dentist chair on Wednesday night … after he took a 92 MPH fastball to the face earlier within the day.

The scene was initially terrifying … within the backside of the fourth inning of the Twins’ recreation towards the White Sox at Goal Discipline in Minneapolis, a heater bought away from Chicago ace Lucas Giolito — and it ended up nailing Farmer proper within the mouth.

Video from the sport’s broadcast reveals the 32-year-old instantly crumpled to the bottom in ache … as trainers raced out to are likely to him.

Someway, although, he averted a damaged jaw — information that Minnesota supervisor Rocco Baldelli referred to as a little bit of “a miracle.”

“Thank God we bought information that was higher than what we had been anticipating,” Baldelli informed reporters after the sport.

Farmer, although, did not come out unscathed … Baldelli mentioned his participant will want surgical procedure “to realign his tooth and repair a serious laceration of the decrease jaw.”

Farmer had performed practically each day for the Twins this 12 months, batting .226 with a house run and 5 RBI. It is unclear how a lot time he’ll miss whereas recovering from the mouth damage.