Twins’ Kyle Farmer Undergoing Surgery To Realign Teeth After Hit By Pitch

Minnesota Twins shortstop Kyle Farmer will probably be spending a number of surprising hours in a dentist chair on Wednesday night … after he took a 92 MPH fastball to the face earlier within the day.

The scene was terrifying … within the backside of the fourth inning of the Twins’ recreation in opposition to the White Sox at Target Field in Minneapolis, a heater received away from Chicago ace Lucas Giolito — and it ended up nailing Farmer proper within the mouth.

Video from the sport’s broadcast reveals the 32-year-old instantly crumpled to the bottom in ache … as trainers raced out to are inclined to him.

Somehow, although, he averted a damaged jaw — information that Minnesota supervisor Rocco Baldelli known as a little bit of “a miracle.”

“Thank God we got news that was better than what we were expecting,” Baldelli informed reporters after the sport.

But, Farmer did not come out unscathed … Baldelli stated his participant will want surgical procedure “to realign his teeth and fix a major laceration of the lower jaw.”

Farmer had performed practically each day for the Twins this 12 months, batting .226 with a house run and 5 RBI. It’s unclear how a lot time he’ll miss whereas recovering from the mouth harm.

He did get not less than some morale enhance Wednesday afternoon following the HBP — because the Twins ended up beating Chicago, 3-1, whereas he was getting checked out by docs.