Pirates’ Pitcher Gerrit Cole is Nearly Decapitated by Line Drive, Gets Hat Taken Off

By Jason Smith on April 14, 2016

YIKES. Gerrit Cole barely avoided absolute disaster. pic.twitter.com/FgQoGi2ZjS

— El Gran Iván (@theiri) April 14, 2016

Gerrit Cole was centimeters away from having his face demolished by a line drive on Thursday afternoon.

The Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher barely ducked away from a Jordan Zimmerman batted ball that took off his cap. Terrifying.

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"Grow up."

"And any time you can bring guys with a winning background on your team, that only helps the morale of your team."

"It's a man's game."

"I hope students, faculty, trustees and the community attend this week's board meetings and ask the tough questions that should be answered."

"But I'm super, super happy to win this award and actually super proud to be the first-ever unanimous."

"Everybody was ready."

"Grow up."

"And any time you can bring guys with a winning background on your team, that only helps the morale of your team."

"It's a man's game."

"I hope students, faculty, trustees and the community attend this week's board meetings and ask the tough questions that should be answered."

"But I'm super, super happy to win this award and actually super proud to be the first-ever unanimous."

"Everybody was ready."