Lourdes Gurriel Jr. season in the MLB It ended in the worst possible way.
During this Monday’s game between Arizona and Texas, the Cuban gardener of the Diamondbacks suffered an injury in his right knee that will prevent him from playing in the remainder of 2025 and, most likely, in the first months of the coming campaign.
“Yunito” the knee was injured at the sixth entry of Marras’s duel while pursuing a Rowdy Téllez’s hit between the left and central garden. The Antillean started in search of the ball, but at the last moment of the race he had to dodge his partner Blaze Alexander, who threw himself to perform a great edge.
“I did the play and had no idea what had happened behind me. I was looking at the crowd and I started running when I saw [el campocorto] Gerardo Perdomo running towards me. Then I looked back and Gurriel was on the floor ”, story Alexander, who was really dismayed to see his partner on the floor.
The two defenders did not collide, but Gurriel’s gesture caused him the knee damage and was thrown on the grass with visible samples of pain.
After being treated by the Diamondbacks staff, the spirit got up and could ride in a vehicle of assistance for their own feet, although lamenting by the incident.
“I had a conversation of a few minutes with Gurriel and he just tries to understand why it happened and how will be the next few days, weeks, possibly a year,” said Arizona’s manager, Torey Lovullo.
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Lourdes Jr. was diagnosed in the first instance with a breakage of the anterior cross ligament of his right knee, although he has not yet transcended the degree of the injury or if he will require surgery. At the moment, the Cuban is expected to receive an additional opinion about his case.
“It hurt me and I could notice that I was hurt. This team is going through a very difficult time. It is a blow,” added Lovullo, who has seen several players fall for injury in this campaign.
The decline of the youngest of the Gurriel brothers arrives just after its best month in this season. During August, the patrolman of the island hit seven homers and 11 extrabases and towed 32 races, the second largest amount of MLB, only surpassed by Kyle Schwarber (33).
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That awakening allowed the Cuban to reach the 19 home runs and the 80s promoted – a leader among those born on the island – at the gates of overcoming the best record (84) of his career in this last department.
“Yunito” had a rhythm to get at least 100 trailers, and could also implement a new personal home run record.
Previous cross ligament injuries are not common in baseball, although there is a history of this condition that have kept the players away from diamonds for long periods.
The most recent and renowned case is that of Venezuelan Ronald Acuña Jr., who broke the crusade of his right knee in July 2021 and then, in May 2024, he went back to the same thing but in the left leg. Others who also suffered this double lesion in MLB were the Venezuelan receiver Wilson Ramos and the American infielder Scott Sizemore.
