During Seattle Mariners Spring Training, broadcaster Rick Rizzs took a foul ball to the head. It's not often that a ball makes it into the booth, but it's not impossible and it happened on Monday.
The frightening encounter occurred in the fifth inning after Seattle pitcher Carlos Vargas threw a fastball to Milwaukee first baseman Rhys Hoskins, who fouled the ball back, over a net and through a ...
On Tuesday, however, Mariners radio broadcaster Rick Rizzs got hit squarely in the head by a Rhys Hoskins foul ball in the fifth inning of a Spring Training game, and miraculously returned to play ...
Rick Rizzs, who serves as the lead radio voice for the MLB's Seattle Mariners, was on duty on Monday when he got hit by a foul ball. He was covering the spring training game between the Mariners ...
The game wasn’t televised, The Seattle Times reported, but the moment the ball struck Rizzs was heard over the broadcast. “Swing and a foul,” said Rizzs before the contact caused quite a ...
A scary moment occurred during MLB spring training when Seattle Mariners radio broadcaster Rick Rizzs was suddenly hit by a foul ball while in the booth for Monday’s Cactus League game against ...
Being an MLB announcer has its own workplace hazards, too. A scary moment occurred during MLB spring training when Seattle Mariners radio broadcaster Rick Rizzs was suddenly hit by a foul ball while ...