Getting back in the game. MLB sideline reporter Kelsey Wingert is recovering from being struck in the head by a 95 mph line drive, with a little help from some of her Colorado Rockies colleagues.“My parents live in Texas.
My fiancé and I have a house in Georgia so when it happened in Denver, I was ‘alone.’ But [AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain] general manager [David Woodman], his wife [Paula Woodman] and my producer [Alison Vigil] stayed with me the whole night,” the sports commentator, 29, told Us Weekly exclusively on Wednesday, May 25, about the immediate aftermath of her injury. “Then my GM and his wife took care of me at their house for a few days until I was cleared to fly.
It was only the second time I had met his wife!”The pair held Wingert’s hand through the entire experience — sometimes literally, including when she had “a panic attack in the hospital over the thought of needles.”She continued: “[There was] no judgment.
It meant so much.”The official Colorado Rockies correspondent was sitting by the first base camera during the team’s May 16 game against the San Francisco Giants.
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