You don’t need one game to tell you that Marcus Semien is a warrior on the baseball field.

However, if you did, you saw that game on Saturday night.

In the 3rd inning, Semien took a 95 MPH fastball from Atlanta Braves starter Grant Holmes to the face. After lying on the ground for a while, he eventually sat up and walked down to first base with Bruce Bochy and Rangers head athletic trainer Matt Lucero.

As the group departed from first base and headed towards the Rangers dugout, Semien remarkably wasn’t with them, remaining in the game minutes after living a batter’s worst nightmare.

“I didn’t think there was any chance he stayed in the game,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said.

“It got him square, so I just assumed that he was coming out of the game. In fact, Lucky, our trainer, was saying he was probably going to have to come out, but he got up and said he felt pretty good, he passed all the tests, and got a lot of questions asked, and he was fine and stayed in. I wasn’t surprised, though, I really wasn’t.

Just a couple of hours after that, Semien delivered in the biggest moment, ripping a walk-off single up the middle to give the Rangers a 6-5 win over the Braves.

“What a warrior effort,” Bochy said. “To get hit in the head like that, not too many guys would have stayed in the game. You just can’t take him out; he’s just hard-headed. Everything was fine. It was just fitting that he came up there in that situation. The guy amazes you with how durable he is to end up winning the ballgame after getting smoked”.