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Robinson takes batting practice Tuesday at Ol
sen Field with his protective helmet. Doctors
cleared Robinson to return to play last week, ana
he was used in last weekend’s Houston series.
By RICHARD TIJERINA
Of The Battalion Staff
Dan Robinson remembers the
chills frpm last Saturday.
Alter being out for five weeks
with a fractured jaw, the Texas
A&M junior outfielder got his
first taste of action since his
March 17 baseball accident at Ol
sen Field.
The game was on the line. The
Cougars already had won the
opening game of the weekend se
nes Friday night 1-0. Now they
were up 4-3 in the first game of
Saturday’s doubleheader. The
Aggies had only two outs left, and
with Houston ace Ben Weber on
the mound. Coach Mark Johnson
inserted Robinson into the game
as a pinch hitter.
Robinson’s head was filled with
visions of game-tying home runs
— the perfect ending to his
comeback. But Weber walked
him on five pitches, many of
them well out of the strike zone.
“I was dreaming a little bit,”
Robinson said. “There was always
hope. You’ve got to hope or
you’re never going to succeed.
The great feeling was when I
walked up to the plate, and every
body in tne stadium was standing
up and just going crazy.”
Johnson admits he inserted the
rusty Robinson into the lineup
because he hoped for a big hit.
When Robinson was injured, the
junior rightfielder led the Aggies
in home runs, runs batted in, sto
len bases and walks. He was sec
ond in team batting average.
But that was more than a
month ago, the day that Robinson
will always say he wishes he could
remember, but can’t.
Dan Robinson doesn’t even re
member the play.
On that sunny March day, Mis
souri leftlielder Darnel Hawkins!
hit a bloop single into shallow!
right field. Robinson, playing
right field, and second baseman
Trey W’itte both chased it. Nei
ther called each other off the
pla
*y- „ .
Robinson dove for it and col
tant
lided with Witte. The result was
tragic: a massive concussion and
fractured jaw. His upper jaw was
broken across his face into pieces,
along with both cheek bones and
his lower left jaw.
“Nobody called for it,” Witte
said after the game. “It was oneof
those balls that was right in be
tween, and everybody was going
all out for it. I tnought I had hit
him in the shoulder, but I didn’t
realize that I had hit him in the
face until I got up and saw the
blood everywhere.
Robinson lay unconscious on
the grass at Olsen Field for
minutes, as teammates and train
ers attended to him. He was re
moved in a wheelchair, and taken
straight to the hospital.
The Aggies, down 6-4 after the
accident, rallied in the bottom o(
the eighth inning to win the game!
9-6 on Blake Pyle’s three-run
home run. A&M went on to
sweep the three-game series, and;
Pyle said the team rallied around
the injured Robinson after he left
the game.
“We were pretty worried about
him, but we had to go out and fin
ish the game,” Pyle said after the
ame. “We were down, because
e was hurt pretty badly. He’ll
need a lot of prayers.”
Robinson woke up Monday af
ternoon, with Johnson at his side.
Robinson still thought he was at
Olsen Field. He remembered the
play before his collision with
Witte, but nothing after it.
“I don’t even remember it,” he
said. “Nothing. I lost the ball in