Hat tip to JoeSportsFan for reminding me that today is the one-year anniversary of Ryan Dempster's hilarious injury. The poor pitcher was attempting to join his comrades in celebration of their victory over the Milwaukee Brewers when a particularly stubborn dugout fence sent him toppling to the ground. X-rays revealed a non-displaced fracture of his toe.
Dempster was bewildered about how such an innocent action could result in injury given the more dangerous incidents he'd been involved with just before:
"It's a weird thing. Three days before that I took a ball off the shin and kick-saved one to myself. And I took a ball off my face in batting practice, off the cage, and I was just fine. And then something as simple as that happens and I put myself on the DL."
But that's the thing with freak injuries, you never know when they'll strike. I just hope Joe West doesn't blame Dempster for adding a little extra time to games by being extra-cautious when exiting the dugout now.
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