The San Francisco Giants’ Brian Wilson, Aaron Rowand and Mark DeRosa all got hurt during their 8-5 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers last night.
DeRosa was the first casualty.
While preparing to swing on a 2-2 pitch, his wrist just gave out, apparently.
One of the Giants announcers initially thought he had been hit by the pitch by the way he jumped back. The other thought the injury came on a checked swing. Both realized they were wrong after seeing the replay.
It sounds like DeRosa’s wrist was something of a ticking time-bomb, if what one Comcast SportsNet commentator had to say after the game was right.
“This could have happened while he…was brushing his teeth. This had nothing to do with baseball.”
Right after the game, it was announced DeRosa would be placed on the disabled list.
The prognosis is not good, according to San Francisco Chronicle Giants writer Henry Schulman:
After two surgeries, a bout of inflammation and now this, this wrist thing looks like it will be DeRosa’s Waterloo.
[Giants manager Bruce] Bochy said DeRosa would return to San Francisco a day early to be examined and will be out “for a long time.”
The next two injuries came in the ninth; fortunately, neither seems to be anywhere near as serious.
Opening the ninth, Rowand hit a ground ball to Juan Uribe, who double-clutched before getting a throw off. Rowand was called out but looked safe.
He came up lame, walking gingerly back to the dugout. This caused speculation he had injured a leg, but the issue turned out to be his back.
Finally, Wilson added a new facet to “torture baseball” when he appeared to re-injure the oblique that landed him on the disabled list earlier this season.
This prompted a visit from Bochy and the Giants’ trainer, but Wilson stayed in.
During the rest of the frame, he was in visible discomfort, but he got through it.
It has since been reported, he injured not his oblique but actually turned an ankle after stepping in a hole.
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