This is serious stuff, particularly for someone who had three previous concussions in his baseball career, the most recent in 2014 when he was hit in the head by an Alfonso Soriano backswing.
So anytime I was around that, I’d get massive headaches,” d’Arnaud said, a description of concussion effects that should make it clear to understand why there’s not a predictable timetable for return.Īlso, it underscores why the Braves wouldn’t let d’Arnaud push to get back sooner than recommended, if he wanted to. Basically, anytime I shook my head or moved my eyes - that was the part of my brain that got crushed. “It was, like, the part that got sensitive to lights and sound. The Braves lost the second game of the doubleheader, 5-3, with Murphy accounting for two of their six hits and Eddie Rosario’s bases-clearing double driving in all three runs.ĭ’Arnaud is on the injured list, recovering from an April 8 concussion that occurred in a collision at the plate. “The part of my brain that got messed up wasn’t really, like, my sense of humor part, or my memory part, or anything like that,” d’Arnaud said Monday morning, 2 1/2 hours before watching Murphy and the Braves hit four homers in a 9-8 win to start a doubleheader at Citi Field, which d’Arnaud viewed from the dugout. When you’ve had four concussions, like d’Arnaud, easy is not any part of the discussion regarding symptoms, recovery or anything else.
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