Tyrone Taylor fouled a pitch down the first-base line that hit Wendelstedt in the left side of the head. The Twins' training staff rushed out onto the field and Wendelstedt lingered in foul ...

Serving as the first base ump, Wendelstedt was struck in the side of the head by a screaming foul line drive off the bat of New York's Tyrone Taylor in the top of the seventh inning. The 53-year ...

MINNEAPOLIS – Veteran umpire Hunter Wendelstedt went to a hospital for further examination on Wednesday after he was struck in the face behind first base by a line drive foul ball in Minnesota.

The New York Mets’ game against the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday afternoon was interrupted by a scary incident involving the first base ... of the head by a foul-ball line drive off the bat ...

after he was hit with a line drive off the side of head. Wendelstedt was umpiring first base when Tyrone Taylor’s foul shot in the sixth inning beaned him. “I saw it like I was watching it in ...

Sitting down the first-base line, the fan ended up with a foul ball off the bat of Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette. The fan, clad in a Red Sox hoodie, wasn’t even trying to catch the ball though.