Random Injury Places Dioner Navarro Out of Baseball Commission
Tampa Bay Rays catcher Dioner Navarro will be out for fifteen days on a random injury.
Friday night preceding the second inning against the New York Yankees, he tripped on the steps heading into the dugout.
In an attempt to brace his fall, Navarro grabbed on to the netting inside the dugout which resulted in a gash to his hand. The irony is the fact the netting is in place to prevent players from getting injured with foul balls.
Eight stitches later to his ring finger and four to his middle finger places Navarro out of baseball commission. At the time of this catcher’s injury, during the past three games, he had three hits out of nine at bats and one RBI. His stats for last baseball season placed him in 119 games with a .227 batting average, nine homeruns and forty-four RBI’s.
Navarro told reporters, “I almost threw up when I saw it,” The Tampa Bay catcher went on to say “I was like ‘Whoaaa.’ I didn’t know a piece of net could do this.”
In his absence, Triple-A Durham baseball player Mike DiFelice was called up to take his place and is anticipated to begin on Monday catching for the Rays.
All and all, Tampa Bay went on to win 6 to 3 over the Yankees.
