More than any other professional sport, baseball happens to have the strangest injuries out there. From tanning to toweling off, sneezing to spiders… baseball players keep finding the wierdest ways to injure themselves.
Add Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy to the list. Over Memorial Day Weekend, Lucroy broke his hand when he was reaching for a sock under the bed and his wife bumped a suitcase that feel on his right hand. The catcher is expected to miss four to six weeks.
As strange as this injury is, there happen to be plenty more throughout the history of the game that raise a few eyebrows.
David Price can’t seem to figure out a safe way to towel off. The Tampa Bay Rays’ pitcher has strained his neck multiple times, most recently this year in Spring Training.
In 2010, Angels’ Kendrys Morales hit a walk-off grand slam and fractured his leg landing on home plate! He missed the rest of 2010, and all of the 2011 season.
In another walk-off related injury… Marlins’ Wes Helms hit one, and his teammate Chris Coghlan tore his meniscus while trying to hit Helms in the face with a pie.
Slammin’ Sammy Sosa suffered back spasms from a violent sneeze. In 2010, Matt Latos sneezed so hard it landed him on the DL due to pain in his side.
Vince Coleman was injured after losing a fight with the tarp machine in the 1985 NLCS. He missed the World Series.
Jose Cardenal missed a game in 1974 because he apparently couldn’t blink…
I believe the strangest injury of all goes to Glenallen Hill. He missed games after crashing through a glass table after jumping out of bed because he had a nightmare of spiders attacking him in sleep.