Inanimate Object 1, John Bale 0

For those of you who do not follow the various contenders for the #5 spot in the Royals rotation (ok, all of you):

John Bale hit a hotel door with his pitching door. The pitching door won, putting him out of action indefinitely.

Four things.  First, that arm is apparently not as dead as initially reported. 

Second, Bale has allowed 25 hits in 15 1/3 innings in 2008 so it is somewhat shocking that the hand didn’t travel much further after contacting the door.

Third, this is another in a long list of strange injuries in baseball history, which Mellinger recounts here.

To focus just on two injuries causing Royals players to miss time in the last decade (I ...