Wedgie! Foul ball sticks in mask of Mariners catcher Josh Bard

It was obvious all afternoon — and perhaps all season — that the Seattle Mariners needed a wake-up call. Unfortunately for catcher Josh Bard, when the call finally came, he was on the receiving end. And even more unfortunately, it did nothing to jump start his team in their 3-0 loss to the Oakland Athletics — a game in which their offense was three-hit by starter Brandon McCarthy. The alarm went off during the bottom of the sixth inning, with Bard behind the plate performing his catching duties. Oakland's Cliff Pennington stepped in with two outs and got a pretty good piece of Michael Pineda's first pitch 93 mph fastball, but fouled it straight back into the hockey goalie-type mask worn by Bard. And when I say into the mask, I don't mean hit the mask and bounced straight down or deflected away. I mean literally into the mask, where it wedged between the top two bars. Watch Bard get a wedgie: Bard later admitted he was temporarily dazed by the impact. That might expl...