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| Mike Napoli cringes on second base as he looks at his dislocated finger. (NESN screenshot, via Boston.com) |
When
it rains, it pours for the Boston Red
Sox on the injury front.
The
Red Sox entered Tuesday’s series opener against the White Sox in Chicago with Shane
Victorino and Will Middlebrooks
already on the 15-day disabled list. Dustin
Pedroia (wrist) and Koji Uehara
(shoulder) have been nursing injuries of their own.
Mike Napoli
became the latest starter to fall victim to the injury bug, jamming his left finger into the second base bag after recording his first stolen
base of the year. Napoli, the team leader in home runs (3) and RBI (9), was
pinch-run for by Pedroia, who was not expected to return to game action until
Wednesday.
Replays
showed Napoli’s ringer finger out of place, forcing the slugger out of the game
as Mike Carp took over the duties at
first base. The Red Sox announced that Napoli suffered a dislocated finger, but X-Rays were negative.
The
White Sox went off to win in dramatic fashion, scoring the game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth via a throwing error by Red
Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts to
walk off with a 2-1 victory in front of their home crowd.
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