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PHOENIX \u2013\u2013 Max Muncy and Ildemaro Vargas both ran full speed to first base in the fifth inning of Thursday\u2019s game between the Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n

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In a brutal moment that forced both players to exit early \u2013\u2013 and left Muncy with shortness of breath and a cut on his nose \u2013\u2013 neither got out of the way in time to avoid a frightening head-on collision.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty violent,\u201d Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.<\/p>\n

The good news: Neither Muncy nor Vargas seemed to have sustained serious injuries on the play. Muncy passed concussion protocol, saying afterward that he was \u201cgonna be all right\u201d despite getting \u201ca little banged up.\u201d Vargas also told reporters that all the exams and tests he had done afterward were negative, despite feeling like he \u201cran into a truck.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely did not mean to run into him,\u201d Muncy said. \u201cIt just happened, and hopefully he\u2019s doing all right.\u201d<\/p>\n

With two outs in the fifth, Muncy had hit a ground ball up the line that Vargas, playing first for Arizona, fielded directly behind the bag.<\/p>\n

Vargas tried to make the play himself by racing back to first. But Muncy was charging in a dead sprint right at him up the baseline.<\/p>\n

The two arrived at the base almost simultaneously, with Muncy getting there a half-second sooner to reach safely for a single.<\/p>\n

However, it left no time for either to avoid the bone-crushing hit, with both taking a step toward the inside part of the bag before crashing into each other and sprawling to the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I\u2019m running down the line, I saw him in foul territory, so I got to the inside of the bag, and I thought he was going to stay on that [other] side,\u201d said Muncy, who had his glasses and helmet fly off his head. \u201cIt felt like neither of us knew which direction we were going to go, and then we both went the wrong direction. And yeah, bang.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Muncy and Vargas stayed down on the ground for several minutes, writhing in pain while getting checked by their teams\u2019 respective trainers. <\/p>\n

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Muncy knew initially that his \u201chead got banged up a little bit,\u201d from both the impact of the collision and a cut that came from glasses. Then he felt shortness of breath while lying on his back.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I looked at the replay, it looked like we both kind of did the same thing, where we both jumped to almost, you know, de-weight ourselves and avoid it,\u201d Muncy said. \u201cUnfortunately, we did not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, both players got back to their feet and hobbled off the field. Vargas sustained bruises to his rib cage and left thigh, but was otherwise alright.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a bad situation that looks like neither of us knew which direction to go,\u201d said Muncy, who had a gift sent over to Vargas in the Dbacks clubhouse after the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expressed my thank you to him [for that],\u201d Vargas noted through an interpreter. \u201cIt\u2019s a hard play. It\u2019s thing you don\u2019t want to see happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s collision marked the second time in recent weeks Muncy has been removed from a game early.<\/p>\n

On May 22, Muncy was hit by a pitch in his right wrist that forced him to make an early exit in Milwaukee. He missed the team\u2019s next three games after that, but avoided a stint on the injured list.<\/p>\n

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The Dodgers are hopeful that will be the case again this time.<\/p>\n

Roberts said Muncy will be down on Friday (the team was planning to give him an off day anyway) but that he should be available for the rest of the club\u2019s weekend series against the Angels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey went through the concussion protocol, and then kind of just treated him up,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cBut Max seems pretty with it right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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