Pitcher Tyler Zombro on trusting in God after a horrific on-field accident
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Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Tyler Zombro is a pitcher with the Tampa Bay Rays organization. He pitched in college with George Mason University and then signed with the Rays in 2017. After going a few years through the minor league system, Zombro reached as high as AAA in 2019 and in 2021, was back in AAA pitching with the Durham Bulls.
On June 3, 2021, Tyler was facing Brent Cumberland of the Norfolk Tides when a pitch was hit back up the middle at over 100 mph and hit Zombro in the right side of the head just above the ear knocking him unconscious. After being taken to the hospital, neurosurgeons at Duke University Hospital installed 16 plates and 36 screws during 2 1/2 hours of emergency surgery to stabilize Zombro’s skull
Today on the podcast, we talk to Tyler about his journey of baseball, wisdom from his grandfather Wimpy, that scary day in June 2021, his desire to possibly pitch again, the prayer he prays on the mound, and how his faith in God has shown him that he's here for a bigger purpose than baseball.
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| 1:06.4 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 1:11.3 | Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romano. |
| 1:15.7 | And welcome, everyone, to the show. |
| 1:17.7 | I am Jason. |
| 1:18.5 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast, and we've got one powerful conversation coming your way today with Tyler Zambrough. |
| 1:26.4 | Tyler is a pro baseball pitcher who this year reached as high as AAA and pitched with the Durham Bulls, |
| 1:34.3 | the Tampa Bay Rays minor league AAA affiliate, played his college ball at George Mason, |
| 1:40.2 | set a bunch of records there as a college baseball pitcher, but went undrafted and didn't really |
| 1:46.1 | know if his pro career would ever get off and running. And it did. And he went through the minor |
| 1:51.8 | league system, as many guys do, coming through single A, double A, rookie ball, all of that to get |
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