Miami Marlins outfielder Dane Myers joined the pantheon of MLB gamers to undergo accidents in self-inflicted, embarrassing style when he fractured his left ankle on Saturday.
The 28-year-old defined to reporters on Sunday how the damage occurred, telling them that he kicked a door within the guests’ clubhouse after being ejected yesterday.
“I took a swipe on the door with my foot, and I did not assume I kicked it that arduous, however ended up fracturing my foot,” Myers stated. “Nonetheless lengthy it’ll be it’s not going to be straightforward. I’m a competitor. I need to play. I don’t actually look
at our report on the time. I need to win each sport that we play so when issues
don’t go nicely, I take it fairly laborious. I don’t need to say I care an excessive amount of however I
care lots. If issues don’t go my manner I’ve to learn to take care of it the
proper manner.”
In line with Craig Mish of the Miami Herald, Myers is dealing with a six-to-eight-week absence.
The previous sixth-round decide stated that composure is the “final lacking piece” to his sport.
“(Supervisor Skip Schumaker) simply desires to see me keep even-keeled and never take the feelings onto the sphere or off the sphere like I did,” Myers stated.
Self-inflicted accidents aren’t restricted to baseball gamers, as males’s tennis skilled Arthur Rinderknech went down with an identical difficulty in the course of the second spherical of the French Open in Might. Rinderknech was compelled to retire from his match in opposition to Tomás Martin Etcheverry after kicking an commercial board out of frustration and struggling a left foot damage.
Myers made his big-league debut with the Marlins on July 4, 2023 and went 18-for-67 (.269) throughout 22 video games final season. He is gone 22-for-83 (.265) with two dwelling runs and 14 RBI in 40 video games in 2024.
