Yanks and their sense of humour....took a couple of minutes for the "soil sample" bit to click
here's the thread for anyone interested!
http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=3586503 post#41 is a nice description of what happened.
Pasted in case anyone is too lazy to click the above link:
"I saw this dive firsthand, and I'll tell you that he was at full speed, full superman, and all 200 lbs of him came crashing down on this gun. It seemed that it would have been a smooth landing, except the barrel dipped and caught the ground. His sternum hammered the gun into the ground via the tank, and then the tank rode up to catch his collarbone and the side of his face. His collarbone was quite swollen, thankfully not broken, and there was a huge tear in his jersey where the snapped frame ripped through near his sternum."