Ex-MLB pitcher Ben McDonald plunges 25 feet from deer stand, suffers serious injuries


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Ben McDonald, the Baltimore Orioles' No. 1 overall pick of the 1989 MLB Draft, revealed in a social media post on Friday he suffered serious injuries after he fell 25 feet from a deer stand.

McDonald posted a video of himself in a hospital bed as he tried to put the pieces together on what led to his fall.

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Baltimore Orioles pitcher Ben McDonald during the 1990 spring training season. (USA Today Sports)

"This is what a severe concussion looks like and sounds like (I still don’t remember anything) Apparently I fell out of a deer stand 25 feet up yesterday morning," he wrote on X.

"I’m fine and appreciate everyone checking on me. Very lucky…. concussion and 2 cracked vertebra’s…. I’ll be back in #Birdland soon calling Orioles games. Thank you all for all (your) thoughts and (prayers) and thank you to the doctors. See yall soon."

McDonald is an avid hunter and expressed as much in a social media post in December.

At the time, he wrote that he was hunting when he began to think about his dad. Suddenly, a giant buck approached him, and he was able to bag him.

"I normally don’t share too many of my thoughts on social but this is too good not to share. I lost my dad in January… sitting in a bowstand yesterday enjoying hunting season without him for the first time gave me a chance to reflect on all the hours we spent together on ball fields, basketball courts, and in the deer woods," McDonald wrote. "I was having a conversation with him telling him how much I miss him and thanking