It was a good baseball game with amazing line drives as the highlight. Tragically, that night, the pitcher who served up one of the smoking pitches that produced a line drive, died of head injuries.<\/p>\n
It was 2003; Brandon Patch was just 18-years old and a promising pitcher. He sent a really nasty fastball to the batter; the batter turned on it, sending a \u201ctoo hot to touch\u201d streaking ball right back to the mound. The line drive hit Brandon in the head and knocked him flat; he was dead by nightfall.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until 2009, six long years later, that a jury in Montana awarded Brandon\u2019s family $850,000 for his pain and suffering and lost potential earnings. The jury found that the maker of the Louisville Slugger aluminum bat that cracked the ball into Brandon\u2019s head had not properly warned consumers about the dangers of their product. Brandon\u2019s mother felt the (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a good baseball game with amazing line drives as the highlight. Tragically, that night, the pitcher who served up one of the smoking pitches that produced a line drive, died of head injuries. It was 2003; Brandon Patch…<\/span><\/p>\n