Rays manager Joe Maddon feared theworst when another broken bat spun dangerously at his ace pitcherFriday night. And while the talk of baseball might now be onprotecting catchers after a gruesome leg injury to the Giants'Buster Posey on Wednesday, Maddon reiterated that maple batspresent a much more serious safety threat. Rays LHP David Price was grazed inthe back of the head by Grady Sizemore's broken bat in the top ofthe seventh, the second time Price has been hit by a bat (he wasbrushed on the glove hand in spring training 2010). And Maddon, aproponent of eliminating maple bats since he became Rays manager in 2006, repeated hiscase after Friday's 5-0 win. He believes Sizemore's bat was made ofmaple.