Matt Williams Injury 1995
I've been working on an essay for my English class and I am incorporating a tidbit about Matt Williams. I know he was injured in 1995, but I don't know the specifics of the injury. If someone could inform me about that, I would appreciate it. -Thanks
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He fouled a ball off his foot and broke a bone. Other than that, I don’t remember the specifics.
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by NuschlerFace on Nov 24, 2009 6:15 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
The weird thing about it was that it was his back foot, which is a crazy rare baseball injury.
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by Roger on Nov 24, 2009 6:29 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated just a couple weeks prior to the injury, giving people who perpetuate the tiresome “SI cover jinx” story another example to point to
by FluLikeSymptoms on Nov 24, 2009 8:47 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Another thing
First, he was arguably having the best year of his career before he was hurt – .336 / .399 / 1.046 through about 80 games. In a full year, his best career BA was .303.
HIs main replacement at third base was Mike Benjamin, a soft-hitting utility infielder. However, that same year, Benjamin went nuts for a few days and set a Major League record by getting 14 hits in three games. At that point Benjamin was a sub-.200 hitter for his career, but in that stretch he went 14-18.
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by jcb9 on Nov 24, 2009 10:10 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
It was sort of like Velez on steroids, crack, crystal meth, etc.
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by jcb9 on Nov 25, 2009 10:57 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Matt Williams did the foul off his foot more than a couple of times and it landed him on the DL for prolonged periods. Bad luck.
by Hobbes2d on Nov 24, 2009 10:55 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
And yet Randy Winn, who seemed to foul a ball off his foot EVERY at bat, never seriously hurt himself doing it.
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by NuschlerFace on Nov 25, 2009 1:29 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I believe he ended up walking and during the next at bat Kruk and Kuip were making fun of him having to run out repeated foul balls. After a few he called the trainers over and both Kruk and Kuip got very silent as they realized it was a lot more serious than a sore ankle.
by WilliamVanLaunchingpad on Nov 25, 2009 5:01 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Yep
Mark Carreon was batting. At some point Kuip suggested that Williams would walk over and “punch Mark Carreon.”
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by Stuttering John Tamargo on Nov 25, 2009 11:05 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
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