As often as Kendry Morales has relived his unfortunate injury while celebrating a home run earlier this season, at least now he has company. On June 30th, Orioles outfielder Luke Scott launched a homer in the seventh inning that gave the O's a one run lead over the Oakland Athletics, and left Scott with a pulled hamstring.
Scott's adrenaline was flowing as he rounded first base and he says his hammy cramped up and was pulled as his leg lurched forward.
The footage of this injury reminds me of one of the old Madden games I played as a kid. Every so often, the ball carrier would be running full speed ahead only to suddenly reach back, clutching his hamstring and stumbling along until the CPU defenders converged on him and slammed him into the turf. Happened to me once with a clear path to the end zone against a friend; the stupid player went from being 20 yards ahead of the nearest opponent to utterly useless in a tenth of a second. AND I didn't score on the posession.
Not the greatest way to celebrate a homer, but at least Kendry has some company. There's nothing worse than being alone to lick your wounds, right Wile E?
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Though this occurred during my hiatus, it's too good to skip.
What should have been a celebratory moment in the young career of one of baseball's newest stars turned tragic when Angels first baseman Kendry Morales broke his leg after jumping onto home plate in celebration of a walk-off Grand Slam on May 29th.
The "jump around like a bunch of idiots" celebration that has become so trendy in baseball has caused other injuries, but Morales' is the most severe thus far. Some teams have taken steps to outlaw or prevent this goofiness in the future. It's amazing that the least-contact of the major sports has so many injuries like this.
Morales' isn't the best, or worst, celebration of all time, however. That honor still belongs to the one and only Bill Gramatica.
Woulda been nice if the Road Runner got hurt one of those times he was gloating over his triumphs over Wile E.
What should have been a celebratory moment in the young career of one of baseball's newest stars turned tragic when Angels first baseman Kendry Morales broke his leg after jumping onto home plate in celebration of a walk-off Grand Slam on May 29th.
The "jump around like a bunch of idiots" celebration that has become so trendy in baseball has caused other injuries, but Morales' is the most severe thus far. Some teams have taken steps to outlaw or prevent this goofiness in the future. It's amazing that the least-contact of the major sports has so many injuries like this.
Morales' isn't the best, or worst, celebration of all time, however. That honor still belongs to the one and only Bill Gramatica.
Woulda been nice if the Road Runner got hurt one of those times he was gloating over his triumphs over Wile E.
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