Comments about the Baseball Gods hating the Boston Red Sox aside, I’m trying hard not to panic over this Josh Beckett injury situation.
The Red Sox downplayed the significance of Beckett’s injury Tuesday, releasing the following statement:
Josh was evaluated today at the Massachusetts General Hospital by the Red Sox medical staff, including team foot and ankle specialist, Dr. George Theodore. Josh experienced pain in his ankle while pitching last night. His examination was consistent with an ankle sprain. An MRI was performed that confirmed no other injury to his ankle tendons, or his Achilles tendon. We will re-evaluate his symptoms and availability later this week.
That’s all well and good, but the Red Sox have spent the better part of the last two seasons lying to everyone about injuries. You’ll have to forgive me if I’m a little skeptical. Especially when you contrast the description of his injury in the Red Sox statement with Beckett’s description of the injury yesterday.
“I felt it on the second-to-last pitch. It felt a little bit different on the last pitch I threw. It was bothering me,” Beckett said. “It felt like it was locked up and then like it popped in and out of socket or something.”
I’ve sprained my ankle many times. I’ve never described what happened with the words “popped in and out of socket” before.
Fact is, even if the Red Sox are telling the truth and it’s just a bad sprain, it’s September 7th. A bad ankle sprain takes two to three weeks to heal. The playoffs start in just over three weeks.
The sky isn’t falling yet, but the strings holding it up there are starting to fray…
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