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\"San<\/a>From the “You just can’t make this stuff up” department.<\/p>\n

Colorado Rockies centre fielder Carlos Gomez<\/a> (hey, didn’t he once play for the Twins, Steve Lardy?) had to leave a game because he felt dizzy and sick to his stomach.<\/p>\n

Well, it turns out he got sick because he actually accidentally swallowed his tobacco chew.<\/p>\n

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… cautious relief gave way to comic relief after the game, when Colorado manager Walt Weiss offered a description of what factored into Gonzalez’s condition to MLB.com’s Thomas Harding:<\/p>\n

“He might’ve swallowed some dip<\/b> or something. He landed hard, knocked the wind out of himself, swallowed some dip, dehydration, all those things were factors.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nasty! Carlos, you might want to switch to bubble gum. If for no other reason, your mouth, throat and teeth may thank you 20 years from. Wonder when or if baseball is going to ban dip? They’ve talked about it, but apparently haven’t done so yet. It is banned in the minors.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, this is not the first time this has ever happened. According to this article, Josh Ortmon, a pitcher with the Cleveland Indians, ended up on the Disabled List because he pulled a muscle throwing up after swallowing his chew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the “You just can’t make this stuff up” department. Colorado Rockies centre fielder Carlos Gomez (hey, didn’t he once play for the Twins, Steve Lardy?) had to leave a game because he felt dizzy and sick to his stomach. Well, it turns out he got sick because he actually accidentally swallowed his tobacco chew. … Continue reading Swallowed chew causes big league player to leave game<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,263,14,41],"tags":[264,108],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","category-chew-in-baseball","category-chewing-tobacco","category-mouth-cancer","tag-carlos-gomez","tag-chewing-tobacco-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/carlos-gomez.jpg?fit=783%2C522&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-xx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3808,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3808","url_meta":{"origin":2079,"position":0},"title":"New York City bans chewing tobacco at Yankee Stadium, Citi Field","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"March 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"As expected (though you never know if a speedbump is going to show up), New York City just banned chewing tobacco at all sporting facilities -- this includes Yankee Stadium and the Mets' Citi Field. 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