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Former Toronto Blue Jays fan favorite carted off field after freak outfield accident
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Former Toronto Blue Jays fan favourite Lourdes Gurriel Jr was carted off the field in Arizona after a freak outfield non-collision accident.
Arizona Diamondbacks centerfielder Blaze Alexander laid out in left-center to somehow snag what seemed a certain gapper for Rowdy Tellez and snagged the ball for the final out of the sixth inning.
The Chase Field crowd erupted as did the Arizona dugout.
Then everyone suddenly realized something was wrong. Really wrong.
Left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr., who had been running for the ball as well, was laying crumpled on the turf holding his right leg in obvious pain.
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«I made the play and I had no idea what kind of happened behind me,» Alexander said following the D-backs' 7-5 loss to the Rangers in 10 innings on Monday night. «I made the play, I was kind of looking at the crowd, and started running in. I see [shortstop Geraldo] Perdomo running towards me. I was like, what's going on? Looked back and Gurriel was down.»
Judging by the television replays, Gurriel injured his right knee when he planted it to avoid running into the diving Alexander. The two did not make contact on the play.
Alexander waved out the trainers and Gurriel eventually got to his feet and was helped to a medical cart and taken off the field.
Manager Torey Lovullo said no diagnosis had been made yet on Gurriel and that the veteran will undergo an MRI on Tuesday, but early indications were not promising.
«Say some prayers for him tonight,» Lovullo said. «You know, it's a situation where we're gonna hope for the best. I don't think it looks great but before I'm gonna speculate, I'll just say park in neutral for 24 hours until I see you guys tomorrow, and hopefully we get the best news possible. But it doesn't look great.»
Any injury to Gurriel would be another big blow to the Diamondbacks, who find themselves barely hanging on to slim postseason hopes.
Gurriel came into the game riding a hot streak at the plate with 32 RBIs since Aug. 1, second to only Kyle Schwarber's 33 over that span.
The list of injuries the D-backs have sustained this year is massive and includes some of the players they were counting on to lead them to the postseason.
Source: MLB.com
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