Could have saved her

Same but with balls. I once got hit in the face with a baseball and lost a tooth.

I got clocked in the face with a baseball once, and it made me get a nosebleed. My parents wanted me to stop being afraid of the ball, so they had me stand out in the yard and would roll balls towards me and have me catch it. Suffice to say, a grounder popped up and hit me in the face, and gave me another nosebleed.