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Jones on pitch to face: 'When I saw the blood, I knew it was bad'

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Following a horrendous incident Saturday that saw Detroit Tigers outfielder JaCoby Jones get hit in the face by a 90-mph pitch, the 24-year-old rookie described what was going through his mind immediately after the fact.

"I was like, 'Get up. Just don't lay on the ground,'" Jones said, according to Jason Beck of MLB.com. "When I saw the blood, I knew it was bad. But I was like, 'Just run it off.' I don't know what I was thinking."

Jones, who received nine stitches to his lip, will undergo a number of tests in order to rule out any possibility of a concussion.

"My teeth still hurt, but they said everything was intact and they were still there," Jones said. "I still have to get a CT scan when I get back to Detroit. Everything feels normal. I can bite down. It's just my lip. (My) teeth are sore, but other than that, it just feels like I got punched in the face.

"It could've knocked out all my teeth or struck me square in the eye. I am lucky it hit me in my big lip and just made it bigger. It's all good."

Shortly after Jones left the game, the Tigers apparently wanted to get even with the Minnesota Twins for the incident. In the fifth inning, left-hander Matt Boyd appeared to throw at Miguel Sano. The benches cleared, leading to Sano shoving Tigers catcher James McCann.

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