Bad luck didn't just fall upon Mattingly Romanin ? it kicked him in the face and knocked him to the ground.
Romanin, a shortstop for the Hannibal (Missouri) Cavemen of the summer Prospect League, was leveled by a skydiver who misjudged his landing on the field and took out the unsuspecting player in the process.
The clumsy aerial performer ? one of three skydivers who were hired to deliver the first pitch prior to Saturday's game against the Terre Haute Rex, according to KHQA.com ? got up immediately without a scratch.
Romanin wasn't so quick to recover.
The 5-10, 185-pound utility player was motionless on the ground as team doctors rushed to his aid. Footage from later in the night also showed Romanin sporting a fresh wound near his right eye.
But there were no serious injuries to report and Romanin eventually joked about the incident on Twitter.
"i feel like i got kicked in the face yesterday, oh wait...." he tweeted the next day.
Romanin's overnight fame did come with a price, however.
"Now only if my oakleys had survived too."
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