What’s worse than being dumped by the Marlins for one of the worst starts of your career, as your manager inexplicably leaves you in the game to win the team’s chance?
Apparently it is left to strike yourself and then sustain a serious injury. Yes, this is something that happened to Max Fried today, and ‘unfortunately’ is a strong understatement.
Fried gets an MRI on his right thigh muscle. He was injured in the fourth inning from second to third base
– Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) 14 April 2021
Hopefully everything comes back well and Fried can bounce back in a short time both physically and from an effective perspective, but in short: yikes. Baseball karma apparently fit not to punish the Braves by hurting Fried while hanging up to dry, but only to do him some other kind of baseball activity in which he was not primarily involved. Thank you, baseball karma.
Fried has not yet had a very good start to 2021. He did well in his first two outings with outcomes or edge equipment, but was wiped out by the Marlins on Tuesday night.
Stay tuned for updates.