BRADENTON, Fl. – I ran into Austin Meadows today at Pirate City, who was obviously out of action after his eye injury on Tuesday. Yesterday it was revealed that Meadows injured his orbital bone after a ball hit him in the face playing catch. He was experiencing swelling, so the Pirates were waiting until next week to evaluate him in Pittsburgh.
Meadows said today that he’s flying up to Pittsburgh on Sunday. More importantly, he said that the vision in his eye returned today, after the swelling went down. He had some bruising around his eye, and was wearing a protective lens that was taped on when I talked to him, but the swelling didn’t look bad. He said the injury happened when a ball skipped off someone’s glove, and shot up and hit him.
Meadows sounded encouraged by his potential recovery, saying that he talked and learned about other people with similar things. He’s hoping that he won’t be out for too long, but obviously that will depend on the evaluation next week in Pittsburgh. I’ll have another update once the results of that evaluation are revealed.
