Mets’ Edwin Diaz suffers scary knee injury celebrating Puerto Rico’s WBC win
MIAMI (AP) — All-Star nearer Edwin Diaz of the New York Mets was taken off the sphere in a wheelchair after injuring his proper knee celebrating Puerto Rico’s victory over the Dominican Republic within the World Baseball Classic on Wednesday night time.
The right-hander was swarmed by teammates after pitching an ideal ninth inning in a 5-2 win that clinched Puerto Rico a spot within the WBC quarterfinals. The group was leaping collectively within the infield when Diaz collapsed to the bottom, and he instantly reached for his proper leg.
Diaz — as well-known for his trumpet-driven entrance music as his dominant pitching — was in tears and didn’t put any weight on his proper leg as a coach and coach helped him limp towards the dugout.
Diaz’s brother, Alexis, was additionally crying as Edwin was put in a chair and wheeled away. Mets teammate and Puerto Rico shortstop Francisco Lindor stood close by along with his palms on his head.
The Mets stated in a press release about an hour after the sport that Diaz had a proper knee damage and would bear imaging Thursday.
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Puerto Rico supervisor Yadier Molina stated Diaz additionally underwent testing on the stadium.
“I was hugging our coaches in the dugout. Then when we looked up, Edwin was on the ground,” Molina stated. “I didn’t know. I didn’t know find out how to act, I didn’t know find out how to — what to say. I imply, I didn’t know. It acquired me for a shock.
“Like I said in the dugout, it sucks, sorry, but when you see a guy that works so hard like Edwin, I mean when you see him on the ground like that, I mean it just is sad.”
The 28-year-old Diaz is a two-time All-Star and two-time reliever of the 12 months. He transformed 32 saves for the Mets final season with a 1.31 ERA and 118 strikeouts in 62 innings.
He’s turn into a sensation in New York for his pitching and his dance-inducing entrance music that leads with a rousing trumpet riff. Diaz comes out of the bullpen at Citi Field to “Narco” by Blasterjaxx and Timmy Trumpet. He even had trumpets painted onto his cleats for the WBC.
Diaz is being counted on as a key contributor for the Mets, who’ve World Series aspirations after proprietor Steve Cohen’s newest spending spree pushed the membership’s projected payroll to roughly $370 million. Diaz re-signed with the Mets in November for $102 million over 5 years.
The WBC event is being performed as MLB gamers ramp up for the beginning of the season on the finish of March. The WBC has guidelines in place — along with some requests from MLB groups — to try to defend gamers, significantly pitchers, from getting injured.
Pitchers for all nations are restricted to 65 pitches per outing within the first spherical. If a participant throws greater than 50 pitches in an outing, he can’t pitch for the following 4 days. If he throws greater than 30, he can’t pitch the following day. Finally, if he throws on back-to-back days, he should sit out the following day.
But few might have imagined Wednesday’s scene.
Puerto Rico heart fielder Kike Hernandez stated the locker room was quiet after Diaz’s damage.
“It’s a certain point that its bigger than the game,” Hernandez stated. “It’s very unfortunate that it happened. As excited as we were about the game and all that, that’s one of our brothers.”
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