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Archie Bradley takes line-drive to the face

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Archie Bradley is a lucky man. An inch or two higher and who knows what we might be talking about today.
The Diamondback phenom took a line drive off the bat of Carlos Gonzalez to his face in Tuesday nights game against Colorado.
Bradley was able to walk off the field under his own power. He never lost consciousness, did not have a concussion, but has swelling in his sinus cavity.
He was taken to St. Joseph’s hospital for further testing and returned to the stadium before the game was complete.
Bradley said after the game that he called his mom from the clubhouse. “Actually face-timed her from the hospital so she could see me and put a smile on her face.”
The play happened so fast that he had wasn’t really sure what had happened. “I kind of woke up and I was laying down.I was like “oh crap”, what just happened.”
The Diamondbacks are expected to put Bradley on the disabled list and recall a pitcher on Wednesday.

Media personality Brad Cesmat first rose to fame in Southern California with the launching of "The Mighty 690" all-sports radio station in the late 1980's and early 90's. Brad came to Arizona in 1993 to begin a 10-year run at KTAR Radio followed by nine years at KTVK-TV in Phoenix. Brad is the Founder/ CEO of Sports360AZ.com. His vision of multi platform content marketing through sports began in September of 2011. Cesmat has served on the Advisory Board for the Salvation Army for the last 18 years. He and his wife Chris have four children.

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