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Buster Posey faceplants into third base with brutal slide
Buster Posey

Buster Posey faceplants into third base with brutal slide

Published Aug. 8, 2016 11:38 p.m. ET

The Giants and Marlins played an extra-innings thriller in Miami Monday night, and Giants star Buster Posey did some damage to his face in the top of the 11th inning with a slide into third base. Posey went head-first into third, and his helmet flipped off as it caught the edge of the base. 

Posey stood up and had a nasty scrape around his chin - and though the Giants had Posey in scoring position with no outs, the Marlins got out of the jam without surrendering a run. Posey joked after the game that he's going "feet first" into all slides for the rest of the season.

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Hunter Pence, of course, fouled a ball off his face Saturday.

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