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MILWAUKEE -- D-backs hitting coach Don Baylor fainted in the team's clubhouse at Miller Park before its National League Division Series workout Friday and was transported by ambulance to a hospital for tests.According the D-backs general manager Kevin Towers, Baylor was having breakfast in the clubhouse dining room when he became lightheaded and fell unconscious, and he was immediately administer england football ed to by a member of the team's training staff.Media members were escorted out of the clubhouse when the incident occurred, as paramedics were arriving on the scene. A short time later, Baylor was seen being rolled out of a back door of the visiting clubhouse on a stretcher.Towers said a couple of hours after the incident that Baylor was undergoing tests at the hospital and that he was responding england football well. Two D-backs doctors accompanied Baylor, and Towers said reports indicated that the first tests appeared encouraging."You're getting ready for postseason play and one of the coaches who's been here all year long has a fainting episode like that, it kind of throws you off a little bit," Towers said. "We have our fingers crossed and are encouraged that everything will turn out well."Baylor, 62, england football is in his first season with the D-backs after serving as a manager for the Rockies and Cubs and a coach with several teams, including the Brewers, for a total of 19 seasons after a 19-year career in the Majors.In 2003, Baylor was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer that attacks the production of plasma in the blood system, a condition former Yankees pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre england football also has. Additionally, Baylor has been dealing with back problems and before the incident was seen walking through the clubhouse with a large ice pack on his back. Towers said Baylor was part of a staff dinner the night before and seemed fine when he came into the clubhouse Friday morning. Towers added if Baylor isn't ready to return for Friday's game, the team might bring in a Minor League coac england football h for the postseason.Baylor joined manager Kirk Gibson's staff in the offseason after two years back in Colorado, where he was the team's manager in their inaugural season in 1993, as hitting coach. This year, he coached a D-backs batting crew that ranked fourth in the NL in scoring and led the Majors in comeback victories."He's a big part of this ballclub and means a lot to these players," Towers england football said. "Hopefully everything turns out well and he's in uniform [Saturday] helping us win a ballgame against a very good Brewers club. england football
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