Sara Hudson, the wife of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Daniel Hudson, was left bloodied thanks to a flying beer thrown during the team’s World Series victory parade.
The gnarly incident went down on Friday, November 1, when the Dodgers celebrated through the streets of downtown L.A. following their victory over the Yankees in Game 5 on Wednesday, October 30.
It was all fun and games, according to Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly, until Sara was nailed in the head by a hurled brewski.
“She got smoked, dude,” Joe, 36, said Monday, November 4 on the “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast. “Right in the noggin. She was bleeding. Huge lump. She wore, like, a wrap, dude. But she’s a trooper. She powered through the parade.”
Despite her injury, Joe said Sara even managed to make it to the post-parade party hosted by Dodgers star Mookie Betts.
Joe, however, was not in attendance at the big bash. Instead, the relief pitcher — who was limited to only 35 games last season due to a shoulder injury and did not pitch in the playoffs — jetted out of town to focus on his son Knox’s upcoming youth football title game in Fontana, California.
“We can’t slack. This is the last game of the year,” Kelly told host Rob Bradford. “It is what it is. We got bigger and better things to do. World Series is done. We won, we celebrated. And now it’s Knox’s time to become a frickin’ Super Bowl champ.”
Joe and wife Ashley Parks share son Knox, 9, twins Crue and Blake, 4, and son Kai, 20 months.
Before leaving L.A., however, the entire family attended the parade together, which Ashley documented via Instagram.
“It was fun, man. It was a blast,” Joe said of the experience. “The city was on fire. It was more people than I thought. It was a short parade, it was only 1.2 miles. But for the amount of people that were there for 1.2 miles, it was incredible.”
The week was certainly memorable for Daniel, who — in addition to winning a World Series and his wife leaving the parade with a head wound — announced his retirement immediately after the Dodgers’ victory.
“This was the only reason I came back,” Daniel told the Orange County Register. “To go out on top. And that’s what’s happening.”
Daniel spent 15 seasons in the pros with the Chicago White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, Pittsburgh Pirates, Toronto Blue Jays, Washington Nationals, San Diego Padres and two stints with the Dodgers. He previously won a World Series title with the Nationals in 2017, where he was on the mound for the series-clinching final out.
