Why Roman Anthony (hand injury) is flying to Boston to see Red Sox specialist Tuesday
DETROIT — The initial read on the hand/wrist injury that caused Roman Anthony to leave Monday’s Red Sox win in the second inning was generally positive. Still, there’s enough concern that Anthony will return home Tuesday for further testing. Interim manager Chad Tracy said that Anthony, who left a 5-4 Red Sox victory with “right wrist discomfort” after hurting himself on a first-inning foul ball, had X-rays that came back negative.
As a precaution, Anthony will fly to Boston in the morning and likely have an MRI during an appointment with a team hand specialist. “Imaging tonight was negative, but we are gonna send him back to Boston to see our hand specialist just to let him look at it and make sure,” Tracy said. “I think the whole point is to get him back with our specialist to see him and see how he is.
If everything’s good, we’ll get him back here. But we’ve got to get him back there first. ” BETTING: Red Sox moneyline is set at +138 on FanDuel for Tuesday’s game versus the Tigers.
Our complete FanDuel Sportsbook review makes it easy to figure out how to use their platform. Notably, Tracy did not rule out the possibility that Anthony returns to play in Detroit over the next two days before the Red Sox return home for a seven-game homestand that starts Thursday. The injury, Anthony said, is most prevalent on the top of his right (throwing) hand and happened when he fouled off a Tyler Holton pitch on a check swing in the first inning.
“I just took a swing and it didn’t feel good,” Anthony said. “As I came back in and went under to continue to swing, it just was painful. ” Anthony ran the bases after grounding into a fielder’s choice and then played defense in the bottom of the first inning.