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

Minnesota Twins shortstop Kyle Farmer will probably 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 terrifying … within the backside of the fourth inning of the Twins’ recreation in opposition to the White Sox at Goal Area in Minneapolis, a heater received away from Chicago ace Lucas Giolito — and it ended up nailing Farmer proper within the mouth.

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

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

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

However, Farmer 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 almost every single day for the Twins this yr, 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.

He did get a minimum of some morale increase Wednesday afternoon following the HBP — because the Twins ended up beating Chicago, 3-1, whereas he was getting checked out by docs.