SEATTLE (AP) — Yankees third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera was taken off the sphere in an ambulance after he injured his left ankle within the ninth inning of New York’s 11-5 victory over Seattle on Monday night time.
Cabrera was harm on a clumsy slide when he reached again for the plate and scored the Yankees’ closing run on Aaron Decide’s sacrifice fly.
Supervisor Aaron Boone stated Cabrera had a brace placed on his left ankle earlier than getting into the ambulance on a stretcher. Cabrera was taken to a hospital with staff athletic coach Tim Lentych.
“I feel everybody understands it was a reasonably severe scenario,” Boone stated. “So, simply praying for our man (Cabrera) tonight and hoping for one of the best. Belief that he’s in good palms as he goes via the night time right here.”
Cabrera, a 26-year-old native of Venezuela, writhed on the bottom and stayed down for a number of minutes whereas being attended to by varied medical personnel.
“Proper earlier than he bought carted off, he simply referred to as me over and stated, ‘Hey, did I rating?’” Decide stated. “So, simply form of reveals you what sort of man he’s. One thing like that occurs and the one factor on his thoughts for all of the ache and the whole lot is, ‘Did I rating?’”
Cabrera is in his fourth MLB season and has turn out to be a daily within the Yankees’ lineup. He’s hitting .243 this season with one dwelling run and 12 RBIs.
“He cares for everyone on this room. He loves being a Yankee,” Decide stated. “He wears his jersey with satisfaction. It is a robust one, particularly a man that’s grinded his complete life and at last bought a possibility to be our on a regular basis man and been excelling at it.”
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