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"I was very happy with his composure and his stuff was really good," Hinch said. He recovered to get Dom Nunez to pop out to shortstop, with Willi Castro making a good running catch with his back to the infield. Even when he fell behind three straight hitters and walked two in the fourth. The one to Charlie Blackmon, I think it was the right pitch but I got it low and in and you've got to know with a guy like that, you get it into his sweet spot, the way he swings the bat, he's going to hit it."
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"The leadoff homer was a slider that was just a spinner, I didn't finish it. "I know I can throw better breaking balls than that," he said. That one ended up in the right-field seats. Then in the third inning with a runner on, he hung a curveball to left-handed hitting Charlie Blackmon. Rockies leadoff hitter Connor Joe hit Brieske’s second pitch of the game, a spinning slider, into the Tigers bullpen in left field. The two pitches that got him hurt were poorly executed breaking balls. He also mixed in 14 change-ups, his best secondary pitch.
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Of his 73 pitches, he threw 43 four-seamers, sitting at 94.6 mph (touching 97) but with a lot of zip through the zone thanks to an average spin rate of 2,404 rpm. I can be better, I will be better and I need to be better."īrieske came out attacking, mostly with high-spin, four-seam fastballs. I feel like I did a good job with my process and staying composed and confident. "This was nowhere near my best," he said. "Instead of trying to go out there and deal with it all at once." Even now, that leg aches every day."The advice I got was to get out there early and just soak it all in and look at everything and just recognize what I had to do to get here and appreciate it," Brieske said. While it wasn’t broken, the muscle was balled up. I was in an immobiliser for six weeks, to keep my leg straight, and it was three months before I could drive. Days later, back home in California, I was purple from the waist down. I had to convince the crew to let me back on, signing waivers to say I wouldn’t use the ship’s medical services, as the Mexican clinic had deemed me unfit to travel. I knew the ship would be leaving at 5pm and didn’t want to be left behind, especially as our passports were onboard. I didn’t want surgery, though, as nothing was broken. At the clinic, they took x-rays and brought in a surgeon. I knew Ryan would catch me.īack at the base, an ambulance was called and the guides tried to feed me tequila, which I didn’t want. I had to turn the handlebar sideways, to release myself. After 20 minutes, they loosened the tension at the end of the zip line, which was still attached to the base platform. My right buttock was cut open and dripping blood on to Ryan below.
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There were huge abrasions on my right leg from where the metal cables had zipped through my skin – I don’t know how they didn’t cut my legs off. When he reached me, I kept repeating, “Please, baby, catch me if I fall.” My leg was split open. He went down the mountain, ripping through the bushes, following the sound of my voice. Ryan was so relieved when he heard me screaming, though he couldn’t know if I was impaled on a branch or paralysed. “What the hell just happened?” he said, but the guide had no idea. Ryan was waiting for me on the landing platform when he heard a loud noise and saw the metal cable slip past his foot and disappear.
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Soon, huge ants and spiders were crawling on me. I was wearing shorts, a vest and flipflops, and I was covered in blood. I thought, if I fall the rest of the way, I’ll die. That broke my fall, but my body flipped backwards and I was hanging 40ft from the ground with my feet above my head. The handlebars of the zip line had caught in the V of a tree branch. When I opened my eyes, I was upside down. I was halfway across the gorge and began falling in slow motion for what felt like an eternity.Īfter several seconds, I felt a jolt and heard rustling. Until then, there was the high-pitched zinging of the zip line. The first I knew that something had gone wrong was an eerie silence. I was 500ft up in the air, enjoying the beautiful view of the ocean to the left and the rainforest below.