Watch: White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon struck in head by line drive

Tom Gatto

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Watch: White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon struck in head by line drive image

White Sox left-hander Carlos Rodon was forced to leave his minor league rehab start Thursday after he was struck in the head by a line drive.

The ball, hit by Norfolk's D'Arby Myers, caromed off Rodon's forehead and into shallow left field, where Charlotte third baseman Jake Elmore caught it for an out.

There has been no word on the severity of Rodon's injury.

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Rodon, 25, was making his first rehab start for Charlotte and his second rehab outing overall since undergoing surgery on his pitching shoulder in September.

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.