Thursday night, the Toronto Blue Jays began the second half of their season with a game against the New York Yankees. It started well when the Jays piled up eight runs in the bottom of the first, but in the fourth, Jose Bautista sustained an injury, which is pretty much the very last thing anybody affiliated with the Jays wants to hear.
Jose Bautista Injury: Blue Jays Star Hurts Ankle, Removed From Game
Bautista was standing on second with one out when Edwin Encarnacion bounced a grounder to third. Bautista was forced out, and as he slid into third base, his right ankle appeared to roll over:
Bautista immediately grabbed at the ankle and went to the ground. After being paid a lengthy visit by the trainers, Bautista walked off under his own power, but didn’t return to the game for the fifth.
Nobody's quite sure yet how bad this is, and it's encouraging that Bautista walked off on his own, but I probably don't even need to cite Bautista's statistics for you to understand that there's no player whose absence would hurt a team more than Bautista's with the Jays. He was replaced in Thursday's game by John McDonald, which, yeah. Jose Bautista, John McDonald. Kinda says it all.
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