Outfielder Knocked Out Cold in Scary Collision During SEC Baseball Tournament
A scary moment unfolded in the baseball quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament between the Arkansas Razorbacks and Ole Miss Rebels at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Alabama.
The play in question unfolded in the bottom of the second inning with Arkansas' Cam Kozeal at the plate. He launched a ball deep to center field, where Ole Miss outfielders Isaac Humphreys and Ryan Moerman attempted to make the catch. Instead, the Rebels teammates collided, and the collision was so violent it knocked out Humphreys cold.
What's more, the collision prompted the baseball to get away, allowing Kozeal to score on an inside-the-park home run for the Razorbacks.
Inside-the-park home runs are rare at the college and major league level, so normally this event would have likely prompted a roaring reaction from the crowd. But that all took a backseat as Humphreys lay motionless in the outfield.
The announcers noted as much during the live broadcast:
Here's the collision in the Ole Miss-Arkansas game. I'm just honestly glad there isn't some insanely serious injury here. Jesus. pic.twitter.com/Rnl0EMPzCE https://t.co/GTnGecktw7
— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogers) May 23, 2025
Moerman retrieved the ball and got it back in play, albeit too late. Astonishingly, it was Humphreys who stayed in the game and Moerman who left the game due to the collision.
Ole Miss baseball coach Mike Bianco later shared that Humphreys "jarred" his right arm and shoulder during the collision, and that obviously bothered him during the rest of the game.
“Obviously a scary moment for everybody, especially when you get two guys go down,” Bianco said during a postgame press conference. “You never know. Bumped heads, concussion, and all kinds of injuries. But at first, we weren’t sure if it was some type of head injury, just because Ryan complained of his right knee."
He continued, "Then as he got up and started to move around it was his left knee. I think it’s one of those, it’s pretty traumatic, guys running full speed in the moment, and he actually came out of the game because they just wanted to really check him out because they weren’t really sure what was going on.”
Ole Miss ultimately beat Arkansas, 5-2, and went on to beat LSU, 2-0, on Saturday to punch a ticket into Sunday's SEC Tournament Championship Game against Vanderbilt.