I don’t think I knew this, or if I did I either forgot or didn’t care enough to remember.
This is an excerpt from Chris Jaffe over at Hardball Times.Com.
Valentine leaped up all right, but the ball missed his glove by a hair, for a home run. More importantly, gravity made a disastrous appearance. Valentine began descending, and when he did, his leg got tangled in the wall. It went between a pair of supporting poles. The wall gave way a bit, just enough to trap his leg. Then it flipped him to the ground. The middle part of his shin was bent. That middle part of a shin is never supposed to bend, but bend it did. It was the closest baseball got to a Joe Thiesman-Lawrence Taylor moment.
Sounds like it might have hurt a little bit…Click here for full story.