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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Edwin Diaz injured his right leg as Puerto Rico celebrated its 5-2 victory over the Dominican Republic on Wednesday night to advance to the quarterfinals.
The Mets closer, who struck out the side and earned the save, appeared to hurt his knee as the team began celebrating.
Diaz had to be carried off the field and was eventually placed in a wheelchair.
After securing the final out, he was has embraced by some of his teammates and they began jumping up and down together.
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1. Hombre BrotaniRumors are that it was the ACL. We'll know more today.
At least we got to enjoy that win for six seconds.
Hope Diaz can return to form sooner than later.
And man, the Mets sure are snake bit this year. Yikes. Makes me think if Correa had actually signed there he’d be up for an amputation surgery STAT.
that's amazing - in which sport or sports are you elite?
He may be suffering from Saberhagen Syndrome too: ERA+ by season: 146, 128, 208, 74, 246, 117, 297, NA
There was always the threat of injury risk from the WBC but figure "they'd be risking injury in ST anyway" ... but nobody celebrates in ST. Maybe they should run celebration drills (Just say no! Be joyless and businesslike!)
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Adam Ottavino is pitching in the WBC for Team USA. Buck Showalter said he might hire somebody to kidnap him.
Yeah, he thought he was real funny. I told him he was lucky doctors don't work for tips.
- am real surprised about the males thingy. i thought females had the more unstable knee because, as i understand, our thigh bones are connected to the hip bones at an unstable angle because of the pelvis needing to be wider for birthing babies
Probably half the girls I play slowpitch with have one knee injury or another...without thinking too much about it, for most of them it goes back to HS or college days, rather than anything since then. Among the guys the most common injury seems to be shoulder and elbow issues...basically still thinking they're the 18 year old kid who was convinced they could throw in the 80's + zero real stretching before games.
I was curious, so I looked for a study, but the first one that popped up was from 1994, so it's not that current. That one, done by "Randall W. Dick, assistant director of sports sciences for the NCAA, and Dr. Elizabeth Arendt, the orthopedic consultant for men's and women's basketball at the University of Minnesota and a member of the NCAA Medical Safeguards Committee" concluded that an ACL tear, "the knee injury most feared by basketball players is suffered six times more often by women than men." That's a huge difference, but as I said, the study was almost 30 years old.
I was interested because I remember so vividly an incident that happened while I was keeping the scorebook at an NCAA womens' basketball game many years ago. A player suffered an ACL tear right in front of me, about ten feet away from me - it was a non-contact injury. She simply landed wrong, and tore the ACL. But her scream of pain was just about the most awful thing I've ever heard. It really shook me. She was out for a year, but came back to play just as well after recovering, and eventually made her national team. I found out while Googling her today that her son has recently played in the NBA, which I didn't know. Her injury was specifically mentioned in the newspaper article I found about the study. But I'll never forget that terrible cry of pain from just a few feet away...
I also found what I suppose was some pre-historic instinct took over in which I was pushing myself away from the direction of the pain in a "the sabertooth tiger (which no longer exists) has bitten off the bottom half of my leg, let's get out of here" way. The pain followed me which was annoying.
But after the initial shock the pain was totally manageable and of course it's not like the intramural refs could actually have done anything useful while the game went on. So I felt a bit embarrassed that I'd let out such a huge cry and probably got the rest of my clan wiped out by the other predators nearby. My bad.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the doc just thought it was a great opportunity to make sport of a Husky Lad. That’s certainly how I took it. And that seemed to please him.
BTW, no weekend warrior injury for me. I slipped on icy stairs as I was going outside to throw a cup of boiling water in the air to make instant snow on a Chicago day when the high was -17. January 6, 2014. On the positive side, I didn’t have to shovel snow for the rest of the winter.
Lately?
When my daughter tore her ACL and meniscus 10 years ago before her freshman year of soccer, I was hardly surprised (nor were here coach and athletic trainer). There had been talk for at least 10 years by then of female athletes being more vulnerable to the torn ACL/MCL/meniscus than their male counterparts.
Yeah, it seems pretty well accepted that these injuries are more common in female athletes than male athletes, for a variety of reasons. I remember reading about it at least a decade ago.
When it comes to knee injuries women are more prone to them than men. Female athletes are 1.5 to 2 times more likely than their male counterparts to injure their anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL¹. (Winfield Hospital)
Female basketball players have a 3.5 times greater incidence of ACL tears compared to their male counterparts, and 2.8 times greater for soccer. (Cedars-Sinai)
Not sure if that means they are more common in women than men overall, since there are probably more men playing high impact sports well into adulthood than women.
i wonder how many people injure the patella tendon or ACL in NOT sports accidents. tried looking it up - couldn't find anything.
minus 17 degrees - my god. i wouldnt go away from the stove unless the house was on fire and even then am not sure i would
There was a terrible rash of concussions in women's hockey 5-10 years back that was anecdotally credited to the sport of Women's Hockey being non-contact while the women just played hockey, resulting in some hits that weren't always expected.
Concussions in Women's Hockey
A quick google of the NYT shows an in-depth look in 2001 and stories in 2003, 2008 and 2011. More generally Mia Hamm tore her ACL in late 2001 which generated some stories. I suppose that is a reasonable amount of coverage, it's not like there'd be one a week and I'm sure google isn't turning up every little story about the latest study.
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