Florie Has Damaged Eyeball

Boston Red Sox pitcher Bryce Florie has serious eye damage and underwent surgery Saturday after being struck in the face by a line drive that bloodied him a night earlier.

“Prognosis for reasonable vision is guarded,” Red Sox team physician Bill Morgan said.

Morgan said Florie “suffered a severe injury to the right globe itself [right eyeball] known as macular trauma. There is some retinal damage that will be further assessed over the next 24 to 72 hours to determine whether or not surgery is required to repair the retina.”

The right eyeball of the 30-year-old reliever was not ruptured, and his retina was damaged but not detached.

The operation at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary was done to release pressure on the eye and assess the damage.

Hospital spokeswoman Mary Leach said Florie was in stable condition but she could not say if he was able to see from the injured eye.

Florie was struck by a line drive by the Yankees’ Ryan Thompson in the ninth inning of New York’s 4-0 win Friday night.

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