Detroit Tigers send Magglio Ordonez for surgery – MLB Playoffs
Magglio Ordonez of the Detroit Tigers is now heading for surgery on his broken right ankle after he was shelved for rest of the season on Sunday, October 9. Just when it was least expected, Ordonez suffered the injury in Game 5 of the American League Division
Series against the New York Yankees.
It was initially thought to be an injury that would not take long to subside. But Tigers’ team manager Jim Leyland was informed by the athletic trainer of what had transpired: Ordonez got the same injury that sent him out of the 2010 season.
For a player of his calibre, especially when he was in the highly competitive post-season series, the news at worst was shocking and deeply devastating. This was what the team manager also underscored.
"He's got to be down in the dumps," Leyland said Monday morning. "There's a lot of emotion that's going on with the Magglio situation right now, obviously, for all of us. My heart aches for him.”
Soon after the injury, Ordonez consulted the athletic trainer Kevin Rand who said, "Whenever he pounds down on it, it's like a split. He's got screws holding that, and the fluid in his joint pushing up has separated that, caused it to be separated again."
Although the Tigers decided and announced that Delmon Young was replacing Ordonez, the player will stay with the team for a while. Even if the Detroit Tigers make their way into the World Series, Ordonez is now ineligible to play due to the rules spelled
out by Major League Baseball.
Just when the Detroit Tigers have failed to make their mark in the American National Championship Series, the veteran’s departure is yet another devastating loss. If he could stay around, he have might well change the entire outlook of the series.
In his absence, the whole responsibility now squarely falls on the shoulder of Delmon Young. How he handle the pressure is something that the team will see in the remaining games of the American League Championship Series.
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