Rivera injured while shagging fly balls in KC

[Big Bid'Ness]

From:MLB.Com

KANSAS CITY -- Yankees closer Mariano Rivera was carted off the field at Kauffman Stadium on Thursday after appearing to suffer a right knee injury shagging fly balls during batting practice.

The Yankees were hitting on the diamond just after 7 p.m. ET as Rivera received attention in the outfield, with manager Joe Girardi among those watching the all-time saves leader be propped onto the back of a flatbed truck and driven around the warning track.

Head athletic trainer Steve Donohue was riding with Rivera, who was gingerly helped into the clubhouse and did not appear able to put pressure on his injured leg.

No further information was immediately available about Rivera's injury. Rivera regularly shags fly balls in center field during batting practice and has spoken about hoping to play the position in a game before he retires.

Oh boy

 

[Pugz]

shagging fly balls 0_o


hopefully its not season/career ending.

 

[cruzg24]

What?!? I already lost Longoria. I cant afford to lose Rivera as well, damn it.

 

[.infamous]

video of the injury happening

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[Gtown81]

lol that was hilarious

 

[NV]

Really hope this is not the way the greatest reliever of all time goes out.

 

[cruzg24]

Damn, I never thought Mariano would injure himself in that manner. The most consistent reliever of all time runs into a wall and thats how his career ends, wow.

 

[.infamous]

Damn, I never thought Mariano would injure himself in that manner. The most consistent reliever of all time runs into a wall and thats how his career ends, wow.

It wasn't running into the wall that caused it or at least thats what I think. The landing he had from the little jump was what caused it more than likely

 

[cruzg24]

The point of my statement is that the probability of Rivera running into a wall during batting practice catching a fly ball is very minute.

 

[RipCity32]

In that video it kind of looked like he was trying to laugh off the fact he fell, then realized he was badly hurt. Or maybe he was that hurt that his fact looked like that, IDK lol.
Feel bad for him though, tough loss for the Yankees.

 

[cruzg24]

There goes my damn fantasy baseball team. At least I got Jose Valverde on the bench.

Damn I really dont want Mo to retire but its a high probability that he will. I saw a comment that he made that he will work very hard to recover from the injury so I dont personally think he will retire.

 

[VC15]

"I am coming back," Mariano Rivera said Friday afternoon in the New York Yankees clubhouse. "Put it down. Write it down in big letters. I'm not going down like this. God willing and given the strength, I'm coming back."

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7891534/closer-mariano-rivera-new-york-yankees-says-return-knee-injury

 

[Hurricane Season]

Forgive me for not knowing the intricacies of practice in baseball... I'm not the most well educated baseball fan there is by any means (don't follow the sport at all, really), but why would a closer be shagging fly balls at the warning track in the first place?

 

[Elite]

Forgive me for not knowing the intricacies of practice in baseball... I'm not the most well educated baseball fan there is by any means (don't follow the sport at all, really), but why would a closer be shagging fly balls at the warning track in the first place?

Mariano isn't exactly your average closer. Rivera is actually an impeccable athlete, a lot of people have said that he was the best athlete on the Yankees in the past. He was pretty good out in the OF too. He used it as a way to stay in shape.

 

[Pugz]

hes been doing that for years. dude stayed in great shape.

 

[Rios15]

What?!? I already lost Longoria. I cant afford to lose Rivera as well, damn it.

I'm in exactly the same position lol.

 

[cruzg24]

I'm in exactly the same position lol.

Lmao, yea I went with a close early with the logic "Rivera is the most consistent RP of all time, this will win me the championship." My teams in the past had a tendency of being short on the saves category.