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Phillies Pitcher Daniel Robert Collapses on Mound, Rushed to Hospital

Daniel Robert was doing what pitchers do in spring training — throwing a bullpen session, working his way back to game shape. Then the right-hander collapsed on the mound at BayCare Ballpark, and a routine March afternoon turned into something no one on the field will soon forget. The date was Sunday, March 22. It was Robert’s first time back on a mound since October. And the cause wasn’t a torn ligament or a blown-out elbow — it was a cardiac event. Robert had an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, or ICD, placed near his chest over the winter. That device triggered as he was coming off t...