I cannot think of a sadder story in major league baseball at the moment than Kendrys Morales. No, I'm not talking about how his name magically changed from Kendry (pronounced ken-dree) to Kendrys (pronounced ken-driss). I'm talking about the poor guy's ankle.
Anyone who's ever played basketball has jumped up for the ball and come down on someone's foot. It's very painful. You can get a bad sprain or even break it in rare instances. But you never hear about the player not being able to return from that injury, But poor Kendrys, back when he was Kendry, hit a game-winning grand slam and joyously leaped into a crowd of his teammates waiting at home plate, only to land on someone's foot and break his ankle so badly that he has already missed a full season and will now miss another for a second round of surgery.
I guess part of why this is so sad is that it was such a random occurrence. Presuming there wasn't something structurally wrong with is ankle to start with, he probably could have repeated that action 1000 times and never had that same result. Yeah, it's kind of stupid, but not "you deserve it" kind of stupid. Like I said, it's just sad.
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