Longtime Yankees baseball announcer gets hit with foul ball during live broadcast

The next night, Sterling was back in the booth. He was gifted the ball that hit him the night before as well as a band-aid from Turner. The Red Soxs outfield had also signed the ball with the message “To John, no matter where you sit at a ballgame, you’re never safe! — Justin Turner.”

Sterling no longer calls a full 162-game schedule of Yankees games due to his age and health, and recently missed several weeks of the season due to illness and to attend the graduations of children. The Yankees, who haven’t won the World Series since 2009, are currently sitting in third place in the American League East.

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