Benintendi back on the roster

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Looked like it could be nasty. Rolled the ankle and buckled the knee.


I'd have thought myself crazy for suggesting this was possible back in April, but this is a devastating loss for the Red Sox if he's out for an extended period.
 

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My non-professional opinion: may be a bad sprain but hopefully no long term consequences. Didn't look like the knee got too twisted, and ankle inversions hurt like heck but heal up well.
Best case: a few days off. Worst case: a few weeks or months but totally back to normal after that.
 

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We can probably change the thread title.... whatever ankle roll there may have been is the least of his worries. What a bummer
 

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I think he'll be back this year. Prob an MCL sprain, but I doubt a tear or significant structural damage. Looked gnarly though so I may be wrong. Fingers crossed MRI tomorrow is otherwise clean.
 

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Everything I have seen on knee sprains were 2-4 weeks so I don't see why he wouldn't be back late Sept and fingers crossed for the playoffs. Caveat appears to be a grade 3 MCL sprain - or any other significant tearing and then it's out for the year.
 

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"Knee sprain" is what every non-contact knee injury is reported as initially. At this point, he could miss a few weeks or he could miss this season and next. We won't know until there's an MRI and someone tells us what's on it. I'm sure they've run the non-image tests and Farrell will tell us the results, but they'll still need to see the imaging.
 

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FWIW (admittedly not much without an MRI), didn't look like run of the mill ACL, kind of a funky partial hyperextension at a weird angle with the ankle roll combo. Unfortunately not sure he's out of the woods either.

I'll hope for a low grade MCL sprain with some bone contusions and no high grade ligament injury or meniscal tear. If ACL involved hopefully low grade as well but unfortunately confidence level for that relative dodged bullet isn't super high.
 
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OK stupid auto correct...you got me...Lol Seriously what is the difference between an LCL tear and a ACL tear?
 

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Usually when a player Leaves with an injury they don't talk to the media post game. Kind of strange.
 

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Unfortunately of course often they go together....

Looking at video again I can definitely buy LCL injury, but that makes me more worried about ACL tear, not less.
Ironically, the fact that his ankle rolled may have protected his knee to some degree
 

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you would think that tied for 1st wth 5 weeks to go in the season there wouldn't be so many maddening moments in this season. It seems we should be up 5-8 games on this division. Infuriating...
 

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Gonna be honest, I'm expecting the worse tomorrow. This feels like the Vazquez torn UCL where no one would say anything until Andrews saw him.
 

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Well, hopefully its not anything that will be career limiting. I liked what I saw of him, he is going to be a player, already is. If he is going to be 100% next year I am happy. I am pretty much resigned to the fact his season is done only because he won't get a shot for any rehab games, and I just cant see him coming back that quick. Fortunately, Chris Young is back and perhaps we get to see Moncada a bit earlier .
 

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For some reason, this thought came up for me..

"And then one day The Kid went down
A fastball hit him square, is Tony badly hurt?"
Close

Then, one August night, the kid in right
lay sprawling in the dirt
The fastball hit him square, he's down
Is Tony badly hurt?
 

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Close

Then, one August night, the kid in right
lay sprawling in the dirt
The fastball hit him square, he's down
Is Tony badly hurt?
I was doing it from memory. I used to own the record. I have pics from his first start in Seattle but I can't figure out where to post them to get a URL tonight. They were from pre-game when he was taking pictures with hist family. We were seated about 50' away. Pretty cool.
 

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Why the hell would you try to assign blame? Injuries happen. They aren't necessarily anyone's fault.
Some injuries just "happen." Others are the result of bad decisions. Is that not fair?

Just saying that if he hadn't made the break for 3rd base on a ground ball right in front of him with less than 2 outs, he'd be sleeping soundly tonight. Before the play, Remy even mentioned that this was a "don't go on contact" situation. Not trying to crap on the kid, but he kinda brought it on himself. You hug 2nd base in that situation. He's probably scoring on a base hit from there anyway.

Let's hope it's nothing too serious. Really liked watching him play.

Edit: If you read his post game quotes, even he says that it shouldn't have happened, and that it was bad baserunning.
 
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Some injuries just "happen." Others are the result of bad decisions. Is that not fair?

Just saying that if he hadn't made the break for 3rd base on a ground ball right in front of him with less than 2 outs, he'd be sleeping soundly tonight. Before the play, Remy even mentioned that this was a "don't go on contact" situation. Not trying to crap on the kid, but he kinda brought it on himself. You hug 2nd base in that situation. He's probably scoring on a base hit from there anyway.

Let's hope it's nothing too serious. Really liked watching him play.

Edit: If you read his post game quotes, even he says that it shouldn't have happened, and that it was bad baserunning.
Your assumption that he'd score from 2nd on a single assumes that he's getting a healthy secondary lead, not standing flat-footed next to the bag. The line between getting a good secondary lead and "[making] the break for 3rd base" is a blurry one. Without question, Benintendi was a couple steps too far from the bag, but it's common even for runners who are doing everything right in that situation to need to cut abruptly back to second on a hard-hit grounder to third or short; the fact that I can't remember ever seeing an injury on that play tells you how freakish AB's injury was. Suggesting that he somehow brought that injury on himself betrays a lack of understanding of how split-second decisions are made on an athletic field.