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Video: Tim Tebow victim of Gator-on-Gator violence, hit by pitch in spring training
By Will Ogburn
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Things aren’t going great for Tim Tebow in his first spring training game with the Mets in Port St. Lucie. He struck out on four pitches in his first at-bat, grounded into a double play in his second, and was struck on the shoulder before being tagged out on the base path in his third.
Tebow gets beaned. pic.twitter.com/JvOsuy3e2X
— Adam Lichtenstein (@ABLichtenstein) March 8, 2017
Tim Tebow wearing it in his Spring Training Debut. He struck out looking his first at bat pic.twitter.com/sj9BA3RLkb
— Chase Denton (@chasedenton_) March 8, 2017
Adding to this unlucky day for the former Gator, it was another former Florida player that pegged Tebow in the shoulder in an apparent accident. Brian Johnson, the pitcher on the play, arrived in Gainesville just after Tebow departed. He played on the Gators’ baseball team from 2010-12 before being drafted in the first round by Boston in 2012.
An audible rain of boos came from the crowd once the former Gators star was hit, but he took the pitch without flinching and happily trotted to first base for his first reach of the day.
A former resident of both Baton Rouge and the heart of Crimson Tide country, Will Ogburn handles multimedia content and news coverage for Saturday Down South.
