Blue Jays’ Addison Barger injury news isn’t ideal before Dodgers series originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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The Toronto Blue Jays are already missing Alejandro Kirk due to injury.
They’re hoping they won’t be without Addison Barger too long as the Los Angeles Dodgers are next on the schedule.
It’s a rematch of the epic World Series from the fall, and fans of both ballclubs will be pumped.
Barger will be working to get back on the field.
The lefty slugger left Sunday’s game against the White Sox with what the Blue Jays called “bilateral ankle discomfort.”
After the game, Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters, “Hopefully he’s all right. Hopefully it’s just a day or two, or maybe not even a day.”
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Clearly, the Blue Jays would prefer Barger not get hurt at all.
But if he’s going to be injured, missing just a couple days in April would be much preferred to missing more time and later in the season.
Maybe an absence would allow Barger to reset a little bit anyway. He’s just 1-for-19 to begin the new season, a rough .053 batting average.
He was 0-for-3 on Sunday before being removed.
It’s still early, though, so there doesn’t need to be too much reading into the stats.
Last season, Barger discovered himself in a big way, a way that allowed him to be hugely impactful for Toronto.
Now, he’ll just have to find a way to get back on the field to impact this Dodgers series and beyond.
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