One of the biggest reasons for the Tampa Bay Rays’ success last season was the breakout season from pitcher Blake Snell. In 180.2 innings over 31 starts, the Seattle, Washington native went 21-5 with 221 strikeouts and a 1.89 ERA.
This season the 26-year-old basically picked up where he left off last season as he owns a 2-1 record with a 2.16 ERA and 36 strikeouts, but now he’s going to take a bit of a break as he was placed on the 10-day DL on Tuesday.
However, there’s no need for Rays fans or Snell fantasy owners to panic because the injury doesn’t seem too serious, but it is one of the most unusual injuries you’ll hear about this year.
“I got off the plane, went home, took a shower, got out of the shower, and then there’s like this big, like, granite thing that I don’t like looking at. And I lifted it – it’s like a three-piece set, and like this pole that comes up two and a half, three feet. And then there’s a top. You, like, put something on it? I don’t know what you would put on it in the shower. Like, it’s right outside the shower.
So I’m like ‘ah I’m moving this, this is stupid.’ Dry it off, put my clothes on. I start to move it, I lift it and I go to move it where the tub is, just to set that down… but I lifted it up thinking ‘alright, I’m going to lift this whole thing up and put it over here and get it away from where I’m always at.’ And then I lifted it up and it wasn’t glued to the pole, and the pole came crashing down and then… yeah. That was the story. Really dumb.”
Snell made sure to share every little detail just so fans and reporters wouldn’t question if that’s how his injury really happened or not, but it seems like a story you can’t make up. Hopefully he had the random “granite thing” permanently removed so this doesn’t happen again.
(H/T Twitter/EddieInTheYard)
