College baseball player suffers gruesome leg injury during celebratory home run trot

A Seton Hall shot subordinate went from the apical of the satellite to the bottommost successful an oculus blink.

In Seton Hall's play opener, Justin Ford blasted a two-run location tally successful the bottommost of the 5th inning against Boston College astatine the Puerto Rico Challenge successful Ponce.

Ford turned toward his dugout portion heading toward 2nd basal and gave a celebratory hop and fist pump, but the hop proved to beryllium catastrophic.

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Seton Hall players basal connected the basal way during the singing of the nationalist anthem earlier the 2025 Desert Invitational Game against Austin Peay State University astatine Salt River Fields Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, successful Scottsdale, Ariz.  (Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Once helium landed, Ford's near ankle buckled awkwardly, resulting successful a gruesome injury.

The Asbury Park Press reported that Ford was replaced by a pinch runner who completed his location trot to officially springiness the Pirates a 4-3 lead.

It was a pb Seton Hall could not clasp onto. The Eagles scored 2 runs successful the apical of the seventh and past 1 much successful the eighth to triumph by a last of 6-4.

A heap of baseballs earlier the commencement of the College World Series astatine TD Ameritrade Park. (Steven Branscombe/USA Today Sports)

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Ford played successful 15 games past twelvemonth and struggled to get overmuch going, hitting .175. He did ain a .358 on-base percent acknowledgment to 11 walks and a hit-by-pitch successful his 53 sheet appearances.

However, his 2026 inferior play looks to beryllium implicit conscionable arsenic it started.

Seton Hall volition look Manhattan College Saturday and past N.C. State Sunday to wrapper up their Puerto Rico trip.

A heap of baseballs during a assemblage shot crippled betwixt the North Dakota State Bison and the Arizona Wildcats March 10, 2018, astatine Hi Corbett Field successful Tucson, Ariz. (Jacob Snow/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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The contention was besides the archetypal for Boston College, which volition instrumentality connected Houston and Washington earlier returning to the United States.

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