Marshall: 'I was minutes away from not making it'

(Photo: David Kadlubowski/azcentral sports)In the box score it went down as a 1-3 put-out to end the sixth inning. Sitting in her home in Reno, Allie Marshall was following along via an online game tracker as the Reno Aces took on the El Paso Chihuahuas on the road, excited that her husband Evan had recorded a scoreless frame. Earlier that day, he’d been named Pitcher of the Month for the Aces, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Triple-A affiliate. Perhaps a return to the big leagues would soon follow.

What the game tracker didn’t communicate was that the ball wound up at first base after careening off Marshall’s skull. Allie’s roommate, a girlfriend of another Aces reliever, warned her that her…