Surgically-repaired knee keeps Chipper Jones worried in the season - MLB Update
Three home-runs and 12-for-41 batting performance in the season so far by Chipper Jones has taken a halt as he is on his way back to sitting-out games. His left knee though has been repaired fully has not yet got rid of aftershocks of the surgery he underwent
couple of months ago.
Due to the surgery, Jones had to miss out on the opening day and few games at the start of the season. He has been extremely valuable for the Atlanta Braves in the line-up ever since he has returned to the season.
As was expected that the Braves will witness Jones getting injured intermittently during the season despite returning fully fit, he leaves the camp again. Reports suggest that he will take two to three days before anything about his return can come out.
If Jones’ own statement is anything to go by, his condition will get worse before getting any better. Pain he is undergoing at the moment will never render him fit for the play for as long as it stays.
Jones is looking forward to a positive prognosis, which he believes has yet to be reported reliably.
“Ever since (Friday) night about the seventh or eighth inning, it’s been really, really bad,” Jones said. “I don’t know what the prognosis is. I don’t know why it’s hurting the way it is. But if it continues to affect me the way it is, I can’t go out there
and play nine innings.”
While he says he could have gone in the play with little manufacturing on the knee, he clarifies, it will have been at gross expense of his future outings in the season.
“If I wake up and I come in and I have a minimal amount of fluid and they can give me something for that joint pain, I’ll play,” Jones said. “But I would have had a hard time going out there tonight.”
A wave of satisfaction which entered the Braves’ camp with the return of their ace Tim Hudson has been counter-balanced by a newly aggravated injury of their star third baseman Chipper Jones. The team will love to see him back in the season at the earliest.
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