I did some Internet sleuthing. Apparently there have been an increasing
number of girls (especially) being hit in the face with line drives in
softball. Many of those hit have been quite seriously injured. At least one
article said it was because pitcher's mound has been recently relocated to
be about a yard further from the plate, which means batters have more time
to react and are getting more (and more powerful) hits.
Regardless, batter's face masks, and, increasingly the open masks like
those pictured are being recommended for girl's softball for batter, 1st
base, 3rd base and pitcher. Especially 3rd base and the pitcher, who are
the most likely to be struck by a line drive.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I asked my son and he doesn't know either. But he offers some pure
> speculation as follows: "I'm not really sure either. Maybe it has
> something to do with the larger ball possibly being more likely to deflect
> off the glove and hitting the player in the face. I don't think I have
> ever heard of a baseball player [hardball] suffering an injury to the face
> from a deflected ball but I have heard of at least three local girls
> [softball] who have . . . and they were not wearing masks."
>
> I was surprised that he didn't know as he's fairly active with the kids
> and their (multiple) sports teams and sometimes acts as a substitute coach
> or game official.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
> On 12/2/2014 10:15 AM, Scott Gomez wrote:
>
>> Why the headgear on the girls, but not on the guys?
>
>
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