The world of Major League Baseball has been rocked by a series of unforeseen deaths over the past year. People weren't prepared for the news that young Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura had crashed his jeep during a visit to his native Dominican Republic. It was made even worse learning that teammate Andy Martel actually died in a separate accident that same day.
The loss itself was bad enough, but new details continue to emerge from exactly what happened. Police are still trying to discover if alcohol was involved or not. Determining if it was will have a huge impact on whether the remaining $20 million owed in Ventura's contract will be paid. Of course that will be given to the family he's left behind.
What most people want to know is how exactly the accident came about and whether or not he was killed instantly. As it turns out, the worst of the worst may have happened.
Bad to Worse
Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez dropped a potential bomb that makes what happened after the crash even worse. https://twitter.com/45PedroMartinez/status/823746467785478144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/45PedroMartinez/status/823748571258322944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/45PedroMartinez/status/823749143847993344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Here are the translations of each tweet from top to bottom.In essence Martinez revealed that some unknown people found Ventura in his jeep after the crash. He was still alive at the time. Rather than call for help though they instead ransacked his body and stole his World Series championship ring. Then fled the scene. An unfortunate reality of just how destitute and sad a situation the people down there live in. Thus far the reports haven't been confirmed by law enforcement. All that is known at this point is Ventura was driving through a mountainous area in the town of Juan Adrian. Conditions were reportedly foggy that night, which likely contributed to why he lost control in the first place. A bleak series of disastrous circumstances that led to yet another sad reminder of how cruel the world can be sometimes.“How outrageous to know that a life like Yordano's could have been saved had it not been that they looted him the way he was looted.”
“Now it is more painful to know that Yordano remained alive after the accident and instead of someone to help him, they robbed him and let him die.”
“I hope an investigation will be carried out, because if there is any specific evidence of this, I would feel a great deal of shame for my country.”
