Miguel Amaya worked for months to get back from a late-May oblique injury, only to take a misstep on first base in his first game back, beating out an infield single, and jacking up his ankle in the process. He had to be carted off the field, and it was a particularly scary and sad moment.
The good news so far is that there is still no word that he’s getting additional scans on the knee, as bad as that particular part of the play looked. So it’s still on the table that we’re dealing with a really bad ankle sprain and nothing else.
“I hit a ball off the end (of the bat) and had a chance to get to the base,” Amaya told reporters at Rogers Centre in Toronto on Thursday, per Marquee. “After that, all I remember is I was on the ground and I rolled my ankle …. “It’s very swollen. We’ve been doing treatment since this morning, and we’ll get to Chicago and see how the foot (is).”
That last part isn’t a non-consideration, by the way. Even if the knee is fine, and even if the ankle is not a surgical situation, there is still the foot to consider. A few years ago, Amaya suffered a Lisfranc fracture in that left foot (it’s in the mid-foot area), together with a high ankle sprain. We know that X-Rays were negative this time around, but I don’t know if there are after-effects or risks associated with a new injury in that same area a few years later.
We’ll just hope that, after getting to Chicago this weekend and resting some more, perhaps there will be further confirmation that a serious ankle sprain is the whole of the consideration here. To be sure, that may well still end his season, but at least Amaya might be able to have a largely normal offseason and Spring Training. Fingers crossed.
Meanwhile, the Cubs will continue to rely on Reese McGuire as Carson Kelly’s back-up, and hope that nothing happens to either of them. Veteran Carlos Perez is at Iowa right now having a strong season, and could be a further reserve if the Cubs need him. And then, of course, there is Moises Ballesteros, who continues to develop behind the plate. We don’t yet know if the Cubs view him as sufficiently ready to be a big league catcher to take on partial duties if there were an injury, only that they view his bat as big-league ready.
The whole situation, while survivable by the Cubs, is absolutely brutal for Miguel Amaya. It makes me very sad.
“You know, it’s frustrating — coming off the IL and then things like this happen,” Amaya told reporters. “All I want to do is be on the field and help the team win, but it’s sad that this happened.”
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