Jun 23 2011 10:48 PM
Re: mIKErofracture
| This dork got bumped into on the field and is crippled. WTF |
I took a look at the play in question. It seemed to me that the collision between Ike and Wright wasn't the direct cause of Ike's injury. At about the moment when the two fielders collided, Davis took a nasty misstep on the way to the ball. Ike misstepped with his left foot and instead of landing on the bottom, or sole, of his left foot, landed mostly on the side of his left foot.
I found a diagram on the web that I think best approximates Ike's misstep:
but Ike's ankle twist was worse than what is depicted in the diagram above, in that more of the outside of Ike's left foot landed on the ground than what is shown above -- maybe even Ike's outside ankle touched the ground on his misstep. And then putting all of Ike's weight on that step had to have been the deal breaker. Ouch.
Ike then limped back to first base and finished the rest of the inning, taking another throw and recording a putout before eventually being removed from the lineup.