It turns out that #NotreDameGuy, Jeff Samardzija still has some of his football skills. During the Hunter Strickland / Brice Harper fight the other night, Samardzija ran in, dropped his shoulder and laid the wood. The only problem is that the player he put the Riddell on, was his teammate, Michael Morse. Morse is apparently pretty shaken up and has been put under the team’s concussion protocol.
CSN reports that Harper said, “Samardzija saw blood a little bit, I thought.” and “I’m very thankful for Mikey Mo. That’s a big spot with him coming in there.”
They also reported that Samardzija just said the incident was “unfortunate.” Good old Jeff Samardzja. Out there, not really ever part of the team, just living the lonely life. You think Brady Quinn gave him a call after this? If not, Brady, give your boy a call. He’s a football guy trying to live the Baseball life, running into fights shoulder first and shit. Concussing his own teammates.
What a collision by Samardzija & Morse. Train wreck pic.twitter.com/VZXn5Qk9xb
— MLBdreampicks (@MLBdreampicks) May 29, 2017
CSNBayArea.com: “It turns out the Hunter Strickland-Bryce Harper fight did leave a player injured, but it wasn’t one of the two main participants.
Michael Morse was put on the concussion disabled list a few minutes before Tuesday’s game and the Giants recalled Kelby Tomlinson to take the open roster spot. Morse and Jeff Samardzija collided in the middle of the pile Monday after Strickland and Harper exchanged punches. Both players went down hard.
“That’s the unfortunate thing about these brawls you have,” manager Bruce Bochy said. “Guys are running in and trying to break it up and here he gets hurt trying to break things up, so he’s down for a while … When you see those two collide, he got caught in the side of the face and jaw area. That’s a big man that hit him. I’m not surprised. When you watch that collision it was pretty violent. We were worried about him yesterday.”
Main photo courtesy of the Mercury News.