Blue Jays’ Espinal avoids serious injury, wrist x-rays come back negative

Baseball
Published 23.04.2023
Blue Jays’ Espinal avoids serious injury, wrist x-rays come back negative

X-rays carried out on Toronto Blue Jays infielder Santiago Espinal‘s wrist got here again damaging, in line with the crew.

Espinal suffered a proper wrist contusion within the Blue Jays’ sport towards the New York Yankees on Saturday, when he was hit by a 98 mph fastball thrown by pitcher Gerrit Cole. The ball caught Espinal on the within of his wrist, leading to his removing from the sport.

Post-game, supervisor John Schneider had mentioned Espinal would endure additional testing to guage the damage’s severity.

The 28-year-old was not listed within the Blue Jays’ beginning lineup for Sunday’s rematch towards the Yankees.

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