Stanley underwent four hours of surgery but eventually made it back on the diamond.Īnd home is where St. He landed on a glass bottle and injured nerves and tendons in his pitching hand. In 1988, the 13-year Red Sox veteran fell down the stairs while taking out the trash. Home is where Bob Stanley almost ended his career. In an effort to catch the at-bat, Brett slammed his foot against a door and fractured one of his toes. On June 7, 1983, Brett was in his house doing laundry and listening to a Cubs game on television when the announcer said that his friend Bill Buckner was heading to the plate. Home is where George Brett suffered his 19th injury in an eight-year span. It was an honest and ridiculous accident." "I don't have any reason to lie," said Wells, who has a penchant for off-the-field chicanery. According to Wells, when he fell he was holding a glass and subsequently cut his left hand and a tendon in his right wrist. The Padres pitcher said he lost his balance after kicking a 40-pound iron bar stool. Home was the site of David Wells' latest accident, which occurred last week, and put him on the 15-day disabled list.
Indeed, the home is an extremely dangerous place for a baseball player. There's definitely an air of mystery surrounding David Wells' injury. In order to corroborate his alibi, Hill offered reporters the chance to come to his apartment to see the blood stains on the carpet. "When I woke up I was on a couch and my wife, Mika, was screaming, 'Honey, wake up,'" Hill, held up by crutches, told reporters at the stadium the next day.
In an effort to get away from the imaginary creatures, Hill climbed the stairs in his apartment and scraped his knees and elbows on the carpet. It didn't help that Hill suffered from arachnophobia - fear of the eight-legged creatures. In 1990, the Blue Jays rookie couldn't play a game against the Seattle Mariners because he injured himself while trying to escape a nightmare about spiders. Sleepwalking gave us a serious candidate for baseball's most interesting injury, courtesy of outfielder Glenallen Hill. He just showed up to the ballpark too exhausted to play. Three decades before "Veres-gate," Jose Cardenal missed a game because of crickets in his hotel room. To get their attention, Veres punched the headboard on the bed several times and suffered a swollen tendon in his right pinkie. On the night of August 20, 1995, Veres, pitching for the Marlins (the same team Valdes also pitched for in '95), was trying to go to sleep in a Pittsburgh hotel, but the people in the room next door were making too much noise. Drew, who missed a few games, and concern about a lack sleep once took Randy Veres off the baseball field. Bad pillow positioning also resulted in a stiff neck for outfielder J.D. Sosa told reporters it was a result of him sleeping awkwardly. Not only has Sosa missed appearances at the plate because of a sneezing fit, he also missed the 1998 Home Run Derby and the All-Star Game because of a sore shoulder. When Boggs attempted to pull off his cowboy boots, he lost his balance, fell hard against the couch in the room and sprained the muscles in his back. In the mid-'80s, Boggs was in a Toronto hotel as Red Sox were in town to play the Blue Jays. Or you put your shoes or socks on and hurt it. "But they say it's one of the most common ways (to hurt your back). "I'm embarrassed as hell," Gossage said at the time. And at least three other players were scored "DL-Sneezing," pitchers Marc Valdes in 1995, Russ Springer in 1997 and Goose Gossage in 1985. How quickly we forget that Juan Gonzalez's back acted up last spring after a bad sneeze. Sneezes, which can travel through a person's body at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour, have taken many players out over the years. They would have found that the situation was hardly unique, nor was the cause of injury among baseball's most embarrassing. Well, perhaps Sosa, as well as those who chuckled at the Cubs slugger's injury, should have done their research. "It would have been better if I had run into the wall or had a fight with somebody," Sosa told reporters. Is Sammy watching one of his long balls, or getting ready to sneeze?
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