BOSTON (AP) — Crimson Sox right-hander Hunter Dobbins mentioned on Saturday he knew his season was in all probability over when he felt a well-known feeling in his knee.
He was proper. Dobbins was recognized with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, his second ACL tear in his proper knee.
“Yeah. I’ve torn my ACL on this knee earlier than and it was the identical feeling,” he mentioned, standing in the midst of Boston’s clubhouse with a crimson sleeve on his proper leg. “Form of some denial went into it, tried to undergo that warm-up pitch, felt the identical sensation once more so, at that time, I knew what it was.”
Dobbins tore the identical ACL enjoying highschool soccer.
Covering first base within the second inning of Boston’s 5-4 walk-off win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday evening, the 25-year-old Dobbins stepped awkwardly and limped after recording an out by making a catch on a throw from first baseman Abraham Toro.
Dobbins took one warm-up toss earlier than supervisor Alex Cora stopped him from trying any extra.
“Powerful,” Cora mentioned earlier than the Crimson Sox confronted the Rays. “He put himself on the map, proper, did a very good job for us. When it occurred, I assumed one thing minor. Speaking to him, he felt it instantly. He’s been by way of that earlier than.”
Dobbins mentioned he discovered about Boston’s dramatic win whereas being examined.
“I used to be really within the MRI machine they usually have been giving me rating updates in between each,” he mentioned. “Proper after the final one they mentioned, ‘I believe you’d like to listen to this, you simply received by a walk-off.’ That was fairly cool to listen to the fellows picked me up.”
The Crimson Sox positioned him on the 15-day injured record Saturday and recalled right-hander Richard Fitts.
“In my head I’ve opening day subsequent 12 months type of circled,” Dobbins mentioned. “Whether or not or not that’s reasonable, I don’t know, however that’s my objective.”
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