BASEBALL INJURIES

There may be no bigger a baby in the world of sports than a baseball  player.

San Diego Padres pitcher Mat Latos just went on the disabled list with a strain to his left side.  "I held my sneeze walking down the dugout steps and felt a little pull."  Wow.

Houston Astros infielder Geoff Blum is on the disabled list after suffering an elbow injury while putting on his shirt.  Manager Brad Mills said, "He was putting on his shirt after the game and his elbow goes 'boom,  pop' and it blows up on him."

Anaheim's Kendry Morales is out for the season after breaking his arm in a walk-off home run celebration.

Here are some other actual injuries suffered by baseball players:

--Infielder Chris Brown missed a game because he slept on his eye funny.

--DH Mickey Tettleton once went on the disabled list because he suffered athlete's foot when he tied his shoes too tight.

--Pitcher Greg Harris strained his elbow flipping sunflower seeds in the dugout.

--Pitcher Byron McLaughlin cut his right hand while practicing his wind-up in a hotel room.  He was too close to the mirror.

--Pitcher Rich Harden, who's on the disabled list every year for some reason or another, once was put on the shelf after he strained his shoulder reaching for the alarm clock.

--Outfielder Vince Coleman missed the entire 1985 World Series after being rolled up in the tarp machine at Busch Stadium.

--Shortstop Bobby Crosby, another player who frequents the DL every year, cracked two ribs while practicing his swing in the on-deck circle.

--Third basemen Wade Boggs hurt his back putting on cowboy boots.

--Future Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr missed a game when his cup/can slipped and he pinched a testicle.

--Jose Cardenal missed a game because he was kept up all night by crickets chirping in his hotel room.


--The best one might be one-time Red Sox player Clarence Blethen, who thought he looked older and meaner if he took his false teeth out when he pitched. He forgot to put them back in when he was batting and while sliding into second base to break-up a double play, his own teeth (in his back pocket) bit himself in the butt.

--The most famous Blue Jay injury might be Glenallen Hill's spider man incident, when he had a nightmare, fell out of bed, and cut himself on a glass table.