UA baseball player who collapsed during LSU game now 'alert and doing well’

UA baseball player who collapsed during LSU game now ‘alert and doing well’

After collapsing on the field during Alabama’s game against LSU in Baton Rouge, Crimson Tide baseball player Mac Guscette is “alert and doing well.”

The junior catcher from Nokomis, Florida, took a wild pitch to the neck area during the seventh inning before he was treated by medical personnel and later hospitalized. The team’s official Twitter account wrote, “Injury to Mac Guscette and he will exit the game under the care of athletic trainers.”

“Mac is alert and doing well,” a tweet from Alabama baseball’s official Twitter account said Sunday night. “He is having some tests run to make sure everything is ok before returning from Baton Rouge. We appreciate everyone’s thoughts and prayers!”

According to Crimson Tide Sports Network announcer Roger Hoover, Alabama head coach Brad Bohannon said Guscette “took a direct blow to the throat on a pitch that was thrown in the dirt.” Bohannon said medical personnel would run some tests to make sure he was healthy after the injury. “With the information that I have we think that Mac is going to be ok,” Bohannon said.

Leah Vann, a reporter for The Advocate in Baton Rouge, tweeted that after Guscette was hit under the catcher’s mask, the game was paused as he took a few sips of water, “but as he went to get up, he passed out on the field.” She reported medical personnel treated him on the field and that Guscette sat up shortly after.

The Tuscaloosa News reports the incident happened during the seventh inning of Sunday’s game. Muscette attempted to walk off the field but was carried off and into a training room behind the Tigers’ dugout.

Guscette transferred to Alabama after playing two seasons at Florida. He has started in 28 games for the Crimson Tide thus far.

Alabama lost Sunday’s game against top-ranked LSU, 13-11. After a sweep in Baton Rouge, the Tide are now 30-15 on the season and 9-12 in Southeastern Conference play.