Red Sox ‘Dodged Bullet’ Caleb Durbin Finger Injury, ‘Facing Wrong Way’ originally appeared on NESN. Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
The Boston Red Sox cannot afford another injury this season. Fans held their breath when they watched starting third baseman Caleb Durbin, who is playing the best baseball of his career, leave the game against the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday afternoon, holding his hand.
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Interim manager Chad Tracy provided a (shockingly) very positive update on the 26-year-old’s injury.
“His pinky was kind of facing a direction it shouldn’t, and they were able to pop it back in,” Tracy said after the game. “There’s no bone damage or fracture, so hopefully we’re fine. We’ll see how he is soreness-wise, but I think we might have dodged a bullet there.”
The official injury diagnosis was a “left fifth finger subluxation.” In other words, he dislocated his pinky.
His exit due to injury forced the already injured Marcelo Mayer into the game. Mayer was dealing with left foot soreness that landed him out of the starting lineup for the second day in a row.
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Mayer was forced to take the field in the fifth inning and eventually made a costly error that led to the Rockies scoring three unearned runs to tie the game in the seventh inning before going on to win by a pair of runs.
Durbin spoke to reporters after the game.
“Pinky-wise, I feel really good,” Durbin said. “It looked worse initially than [when] the results came back, which is obviously a big win. No fracture, which was the big thing. Just a little stiffness, which isn’t a big deal at all. The frustration is just having to come out and putting the guys in a tough position.”
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