Wrist Injury Slows Joey Terdoslavich

Mar 5, 2014; Clearwater, FL, USA; Atlanta Braves left fielder Joey Terdoslavich (25) grounds out with the bases loaded in the fourth inning and drives in a run against the Philadelphia Phillies at Brighthouse Networks Field. Mandatory Credit: David Manning-USA TODAY Sports

Last Saturday Joey Terdoslavich completed one of the oddest single handed double plays I’ve ever seen and one that Freddie Freeman couldn’t have made. In the process however he sustained an injury to his wrist forcing him to miss out on  valuable playing time.

The Play

They say every time you watch a baseball game you’re likely to see something new and on Saturday I did. A sharply hit ground ball to JoeyT playing first turned into a singled handed double play. Nothing unusual about that except that it happened at third.

Yadier Molina was going on contact but the ball got to Joey so quickly Molina knew he was toast so he did what a runner is supposed to do, stayed in the rundown in an attempt to allow the follow runner to get to third. Except this rundown was all Joey as he simply out ran Molina as he headed back to third. (That’s the part F5F couldn’t have done, he hasn’t out run anyone lately.)

Instead of flipping the ball to Philip Gosselin, Joey tagged Molina and seeing the follow runner – Dean Anna – attempting to slide into the back of the bag so he launched himself first to apply the tag and complete the double play.

Molina grabbed his hat in disbelief as he saw it happened while Gosselin just tried to stay out of the way. Anna walked off embarrassed at getting caught like that. When Joey got up however you could see he was in pain. Looking at the replay you can see Anna’s slide pulling Terdoslavich’s wrist backward as he slid by him causing the injury.  In case you missed it you can watch Joey make the play by clicking here.