Former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher carted off field with season ending injury
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The Seattle Mariners placed former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Trent Thornton on the injured list on Sunday, and announced that the right-hander will miss the rest of the season due to a torn left Achilles tendon.
Thornton entered the game to start the eighth inning and retired the first five batters he faced.
The right-hander then had a full count on Garcia before the righty hitter hit a grounder on his 95 mph fastball on the lower outside corner.
«I threw the pitch, and as soon as I turned, I thought I broke the guy's bat and it hit me in the back of the leg, and I fell,» Thornton said.
Thornton said his first reaction at that point was to try to look at his leg to see what had happened.
«I tried to get up and just couldn't even put pressure on it at all,» Thornton said. «It didn't hurt. It's just achy and numb. But I guess I don't know. I'm still trying to process this a little bit, and I'll find out more tomorrow.»
Thornton had to be carted off the field after he suffered the injury in the ninth inning
Follow-up tests revealed the unfortunate and expected news of an Achilles tear, and while a specific recovery timeline isn't yet known, Thornton could be in jeopardy of missing some time at the start of the 2026 season.
Thornton has a 4.68 ERA over 42 1/3 innings for Seattle this season.
A few particularly rough blowups have inflated his ERA, but his 17.8% strikeout rate is well below Thornton's 26.2 K% from 2024.
Owed a raise from his current $2MM salary in his final year of salary arbitration, Thornton will probably still be inexpensive enough that he won't be non-tendered this winter, barring an unwelcome injury diagnosis.
Since coming to the Mariners in a trade from the Blue Jays prior to the 2023 deadline, Thornton has been a workhorse out of Seattle's pen, with a 3.65 ERA over 140 2/3 innings.
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