I hate baseball.  In fact, as the hockey season is winding down, my NHL Center Ice channels are slowly being converted to baseball coverage.  It’s insulting.  BUT it’s episodes like people getting in the face with fly balls that make the game more interesting.  Anyway, safe to say this is the last time this chick will have balls strike her in the face.  There goes her social life.

A day at the ballpark likely turned into a night in the doghouse for a man in Arizona after he jumped out of the way of a scorching home run ball, leaving his date to get smacked in the face.   The couple was enjoying some soda and popcorn in their centerfield seats at Chase Field last night as they watched the Arizona Diamondbacks take on the St Louis Cardinals.   At bat against Diamondbacks pitcher Heath Bell in the seventh inning, Cardinals shortstop Peter Kozma suddenly launched a long fly ball into the seats. 

As the ball began to drop, the man had the reflexes to jump out of the way, leaving his female companion in its direct path.  The ball then struck her in the face as she tried to duck.  source