Blue Jays confirm brutal Alejandro Kirk injury news
Toronto will have to figure this out.
Blue Jays confirm brutal Alejandro Kirk injury news originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Alejandro Kirk injury news has turned out to be quite a bummer.
The Toronto Blue Jays likely headed into Saturday hoping it wouldn't be as bad as feared, but it's a tough outcome in the end. The Blue Jays placed Kirk on the Injured List on Saturday. He had exited action Friday night in the 10th inning after taking a foul ball off his left thumb beneath his catcher's mitt.
The Blue Jays announced that Kirk's injury is a left thumb fracture. MORE: Explaining the absurdity of 2 MLB players named Max Muncy They called up Brandon Valenzuela from Triple-A Buffalo to be their second catcher behind the fill-in starter Tyler Heineman. Blue Jays reporter Hazel Mae reported, "Kirk will visit Dr.
Graham in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania on Monday and see if they need to do any kind of surgical intervention or pin in his thumb. " Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters, via Mae, that Kirk also dislocated his left thumb in addition to the fracture. Schneider added that the fracture occurred in the middle of the thumb, "Almost over the knuckle," and described it as "weird.