Tim Tebow Injured After Scoring Game-Winning Run
The Mets are so snakebitten that even Tim Tebow is not immune to the curse.
Playing for the Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies against the Yankees’ Trenton Thunder affiliate, Tebow scored what would prove to be the winning run in the 3-2 win Thursday.
He crossed the plate in the second inning with that victory-securing score on a passed ball, but later in the game, Tebow, who went 1-for-2 with a walk and a strikeout, left the contest in the seventh inning with what Spectrum News reported as “discomfort in his right hand/wrist.”
It was the second significant injury for the Rumble Ponies in the game. Starting pitcher Ricky Knapp left the ballgame after just a single inning, leaving the bullpen to work a stellar team effort in which the relievers combined for eight innings of scoreless ball.
Tim Tebow left the game with a right wrist/hand injury. He’s going to get an MRI/X-ray tomorrow for further evaluation
— Trish Kilgannon (@trishkilgannon) July 20, 2018
Manager Luis Rojas referred to the injury as “a hand/wrist thing,” noting that when Tebow made contact with the ball, he let go of the bat with his right hand, gripping the bat only with his left as he followed through.
Tebow was set to have an MRI on his right wrist Friday morning, according to WBNG-TV.
Tebow made the Eastern League All-Star game earlier in July after a streak of hot hitting raised his batting average; with the 1-for-2 night Thursday, Tebow is hitting .273.
The Rumble Ponies’ bullpen, meanwhile, is showing the big club that there may be hope yet that the Mets can rebuild their pitching, if not to the level that propelled them to the 2015 World Series behind a slew of first-rate talents like Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard, then at least to something better than their last-place form this year.
The relievers, with their eight scoreless innings, ran their streak of no-run relief to 18 innings total.
Rojas says Tebow approached him with the injury and let him know of the discomfort rather than trying to play through it.
“He didn’t feel confident with his wrist,” Rojas said. “I think once a player tells you something like that you need to get him to the medical department. So our trainer Bob Grimes, right away, started interacting and attending to him, and doing the proper treatment. Now we have to see what comes out of it.”
Regarding the injury itself, Rojas continued with the wait-and-see attitude in his comments.
“Tim came out of the game not feeling good after a swing,” he said. “He’s going to get checked by the doctor (Friday) morning, and we have to see how his status is going to be. It’s a hand/wrist thing. I think there was one swing where he let go the bottom hand and the top hand finished his swing. He said that he felt something there. We don’t know right now. We’ll have to wait until tomorrow and find out what he has when he gets checked by our doctor in town.”
Whether Tebow is seriously injured, and whether this jeopardizes his potential September call-up to the major leagues, remains uncertain.
For now, the Rumble Ponies look to try to get above .500 on the season. They are currently 46-50.
They continue their four-game set with Trenton on Friday.
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