Skip Schumaker affected by right oblique injury
Even though the regular season is only a few ago away, the St. Louis Cardinals’ players seem to have fallen victim to a string of potentially troubling injuries. The team manager Mike Matheny indicated on Saturday, March 17, that right oblique injury of Skip Schumaker might have worsened.
Skip Schumaker had sustained the injury when the Redbirds were playing the Game 5 in the National League Division Series. The injury was initially thought to be a minor one, but as it has turned out, Schumaker is effectively in an unpleasant and difficult situation as far as injury is concerned.
The team manager – Mike Matheny, while talking to the reporters, said that the team has to wait and see what transpires. "It's possible it is worse than that one, so we have to wait and see," Matheny said.
He did, however, suggest that Schumaker had better go for rest so that he can recover soon. "It's not the type of injury where we have to rush him into one, because we already know what he's dealing with," Matheny said. "The biggest thing for him to do now is rest and recover."
It is barely a good news for the Cardinals as they are impatiently waiting to see what happens to Chris Carpenter and Rafael Furcal who have their fitness problem to sort out. As for Schumaker, he will undergo an MRI on Monday on the strained muscle area.
Matheny did regret the fact that he let Schumaker play on Friday whereby the player started showing signs of possible injury after hitting.
"I asked if he was all right, and he told me that he was," Matheny said. "My gut told me that he wasn't, and [I] let him [keep hitting]. That made it worse. Neither of us did the right thing."
The fast pace with which things have popped up in the recent past, it does not bode well for the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cactus League was supposed to bring the best of the World Series champs; however, these developments are a bad omen. Nonetheless, the Cardinals will have to bide their time to see things return to normalcy.
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