Holliday's nose bloodied but not broken by pitch

July 22nd, 2016

ST.LOUIS -- 's nose was grazed by a pitch from in the sixth inning of Thursday night's series finale against the Padres. St. Louis trailed, 2-1, at the time but came back to win, 6-5, on a walk-off single from .
The nose wasn't fractured, and Holliday is considered day to day.
"Hate seeing that," manager Mike Matheny said. "Think we got real fortunate. Getting hit in the face, it's hard to say it's fortunate, but it could have been a lot worse. His beak is a little sore right now, but structurally, everything checked out good and no concussion either, so [he's] very, very fortunate."
Though Holliday fell to the ground, he stood under his own power and walked to first base while talking to Matheny, who pulled Holliday out of the game. Blood was coming from Holliday's nose as he left the field.
Cashner apologized for the incident.
"Definitely felt terrible about hitting Holliday in the face," Cashner said. "I've never done that. Fastball just got away."
entered as a pinch-runner and Cashner was replaced by , who got to ground out to end the inning. Holliday went 0-for-2 before he left the game.
, who replaced Holliday in left field, committed an error on a fly ball off the bat of to start the seventh; Schimpf reached second and scored. Hazelbaker later doubled and scored on a single in the eighth and used a sacrifice bunt in the ninth to advance and to second and third, setting up the winning hit.
"I think it's the all-time best result from getting hit in the face that I might have ever seen," Cardinals starter said.