{"id":452057,"date":"2026-09-03T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452057\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:30:11","slug":"yankees-ben-rice-injures-person-in-camera-well-with-foul-ball-in-scary-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452057\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Ben Rice injures person in camera well with foul ball in scary scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2013 The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/03\/sports\/yankees-clip-angels-in-10-to-gain-game-on-rays-in-al-east-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yankees\u2019 6-3, 10-inning win over the Angels<\/a> was delayed in the top of the sixth inning Wednesday night after Ben Rice roped a foul ball into the first-base camera well and hit a photographer in the head.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees medical staff, including director of sports medicine and rehab Mike Schuck, jumped in to tend to the photographer while head trainer Tim Lentych called for a cart as the crowd went quiet after the scary scene.<\/p>\n<p>After a delay of about 10 minutes, the photographer walked under his own power (with a neck brace) to a medical cart, where Rice was waiting to shake his hand before he was driven off.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ben Rice drilled a baseball into the camera well and hit someone.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to monitor the situation as more news is available. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SC7xBPqZmw\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/SC7xBPqZmw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fireside Yankees (@FiresideYankees) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FiresideYankees\/status\/2095347658705551503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The gentleman who was drilled walked on his own out of the camera well \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>Ben Rice didn&#8217;t leave the scene until he was okay  \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PTqzvNBnux\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PTqzvNBnux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fireside Yankees (@FiresideYankees) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FiresideYankees\/status\/2095348655267913954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Angels spokesman relayed, via the photographer\u2019s outlet, that he was receiving medical attention but was OK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery relieved,\u201d Rice said. \u201cI saw it, he definitely was not ready for any kind of impact there, he was looking the other direction. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure how square it hit him in the head, but definitely a scary scene, so happy to hear he\u2019s OK.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The ball came off Rice\u2019s bat at 79.5 mph, a low line drive that went right through the far opening to stairs in the Yankees dugout and plunked the photographer.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7716263;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40639959\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-02-at-111556-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Rice hit the foul ball down the first base side and struck a person i the camera well.\" class=\"wp-image-40639959\"\/>Ben Rice hit the foul ball down the first base side and struck a person in the camera well. X\/FiresideYankees<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.87202925;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40639962\" width=\"1024\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-02-at-112010-PM.jpg\" alt=\"The person in the camera well left with a neck brace.\" class=\"wp-image-40639962\"\/>The person in the camera well left with a neck brace. X\/FiresideYankees\/<\/p>\n<p>Once the cart left the field, Angels lefty Reid Detmers threw a few warmup pitches before the game resumed, with Rice ultimately flying out to center field on the ninth pitch of his at-bat.   <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2013 The Yankees\u2019 6-3, 10-inning win over the Angels was delayed in the top of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,92189,167770,2866,1334,5223,127],"class_list":["post-452057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-ben-rice","tag-freak-sports-injuries","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}