“Everything checked out, he wants to be back in there and ready to go,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “Thankfully, nothing happened,” Acuña said.Īcuña, who has eight home runs and an OPS of 1.031 in 33 games at the Marlins’ home stadium, said he underwent heat and ice treatments. In Acuña’s first plate appearance in the nightcap, a 93 mph fastball from right-hander Tylor Megill hit Acuña.

“They have asked me how I can hit the ball that far and I don’t know either, to be honest,” Acuña said.

In the doubleheader opener Monday, the 25-year-old doubled, singled and hit his fifth home run, a 448-foot drive that landed on the third deck of the left-center field seats at Citi Field. “At the moment I thought it was something more serious, I couldn’t move my arm,” Acuña said through a translator. He was hitting leadoff and playing centerfield against Miami. X-rays and additional tests at a hospital showed Acuña sustained a bruise.

was back in the Atlanta Braves lineup a day after he was hit on the left shoulder and left the second game of a doubleheader against the New York Mets. Pull up a rocking chair, break out the sweet tea and moon pies, and sit a spell.MIAMI – Ronald Acuña Jr. Sprinkled generously throughout are essays, writing advice, and lists of Kelly’s favorite books and movies, as well as his most cherished heroes, villains, and creatures from the RK mythos. His early influences, the long road to publication, success as a Zebra Horror author, the devastating collapse of mass market publishing in the mid-1990s, and his ten-year hiatus from writing and horror… it is all here, between two covers, as well as his triumphant return to the genre and a fresh, new resurgence of his creativity and popularity. In Southern-Fried & Horrified, Splatterpunk Award-winning author Ronald Kelly expounds on a lifetime shaped by his love of horror and the macabre, as well as a thirty-six-year career as a Southern storyteller. I may not fit into any of the categories mentioned above, but I do have a story to tell…

Every now and then, if an author is famous, popular, or respected enough, they feel compelled to share their story… and others desire to hear it in return. Reading them, creating them, writing them, selling and publishing them.

Something Out There by Ronald Kelly