ESPN: D-backs LHP Robbie Ray wears insert in cap after line drive to head

Two starts, two wins, two runs allowed and 19 strikeouts in 11 2/3 innings. That’s what Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Robbie Ray has done since returning from the concussion he suffered July 28 on a line drive that struck him above the left ear.

As far as the eye can see when Ray is on the mound, everything seems the same as it did when the 25-year-old left-hander was earning his first All-Star berth this year.

There is a hidden difference, however. Ray told ESPN’s Outside the Lines on Saturday that he now wears a protective cap insert on the side of the head where he was hit.  Read the full story from ESPN’s William Weinbaum HERE