Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports: Red Sox pitcher Daniel Bard seeks help in search for friend Matt Hill

Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports Latest Big League Stew - MLB from Yahoo! Sports Red Sox pitcher Daniel Bard seeks help in search for friend Matt Hill 29 May 2011, 1:23 am Boston Red Sox right-hander Daniel Bard turned to the media for assistance in the search for Matt Hill, a friend since childhood who has been missing from the Washington, D.C. area since late Tuesday morning. A Facebook page has been created for Hill — who is white, stands 6-feet tall, weighs about 165 pounds, has blue eyes and dirty blond hair. He's in his mid 20s. Hill was last seen in the Chinatown area driving a 1996 black Honda CX with a D.C. license plate tagged DT-2747. Here's a PDF file with more information, along with numbers to call if you've seen him. Via MLB.com, Bard said he talked to his friend as recently as Monday: "I exchanged some texts with him on Monday during the day, so roughly 24 hours before he went missing," said Bard. "He was a big Indians fan, is a big Indians fan, so he was giving me a hard time about going into Cleveland." Bard first learned his friend was missing on Thursday morning. It has been a tough couple of days for the righty. "Matt and I grew up together," Bard said. "I've known him since I was about 10 or 11 years old. He was a groomsman in my wedding, so he's a pretty good friend." Hill works for the campus outreach program at George Washington University, serving as a campus director. He is not the type of individual who would just disappear for no reason, according to Bard. "Extremely out of character," Bard said. A Major League Baseball blog might seem out of place for a post about a missing person but the friendship Hill shares with Bard makes for an exception in this case. Hopefully, Hill will be found quickly and safely. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.