This injury seems like a stretch.
Marlins starter Eury Perez exited Wednesday’s 2-1 road loss to the Blue Jays prematurely after injuring himself while getting loose ahead of the fifth inning.
He suffered a right hamstring spasm and will undergo imaging to determine the full extent of the injury, according to MLB.com.
Both teams’ broadcasts captured Perez stretching and getting his hips loose before he suddenly experienced discomfort and ultimately had to be helped to the clubhouse.
“I was just having a conversation with our pitching coach and suddenly I felt tightness right there in my leg and I couldn’t get up,” Pérez said via an interpreter, per MLB.com. “I would say on a scale from 1-10, I would give a 10. It was very painful. I knew I was not going to be able to go out there, and that was the same thought from our coaches, and we decided to go inside and just take a look at it.”
It’s a cruel twist for Perez that a day that his most dominant outing of the season would be cut short in such a weird fashion.
He dominated the Blue Jays through four scoreless innings, striking out a season-high nine batters while yielding just three hits.
Disaster struck when he readied in the dugout ahead of the fifth inning, with trainers coming over to attend to him before a teammate helped him down the stairs into the clubhouse at Rogers Centre.
Sportsnet broadcaster Dan Shulman provided a play-by-play of the shocking scene.
“Get a load of this, especially if you have been with us all afternoon, Eury Perez — this was just a couple of minutes ago — as the top half of the inning is ending and Perez is getting ready, he’s talking with one of his pitching coaches … doing some stretching, ‘I’m going to go out on the field and get back after it and I do a little bit of this and a little of that and oh. What did I do?’” Shulman said.
“And he immediately sits down, don’t know if it was back, leg, knee, don’t know what it is, this was like two minutes ago, but he’s in a lot of pain and had to be helped down the stairs and eventually toward the clubhouse and Eury Perez is out of the game.”
The Blue Jays tied the game at 1-1 in the fifth against reliever Michael Peterson and then added the game-winning run in the sixth to win two of three in this series.
Any potential absence would put the fourth-place Marlins (26-31) in a tough spot due to the lack of available pitching depth.
The team recently released veteran Chris Paddack, lost Robby Snelling to Tommy John surgery and optioned Braxton Garrett to the minors.
“We don’t have anything until that imaging happens tomorrow,” Miami manager Clayton McCullough said, per MLB.com
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