MIAMI – Puerto Rico’s happiness in the wake of overcoming the Dominican Republic On the planet Baseball Exemplary on Wednesday night was fleeting after nearer Edwin Díaz was harmed in the postgame festivity.
After striking out Teoscar Hernández to end the 5-2 triumph, the Mets closer strolled off the hill toward home plate, applauding. His compatriots gushed out from the hole, embracing him and jumping all over.
Minutes after the fact, the gathering isolated and waved toward the burrow for help as Díaz sat on the ground, his right leg expanded. The festival halted, and players from the two groups looked on with concern.
In the long run, Díaz has offed the field and put into a wheelchair, then, at that point, moved down a concourse underneath the stands. His sibling, Reds alleviation pitcher Alexis, should have been visible crying, his arm around one of his partners.
“Calm,” said Puerto Rico focuses defender Kiké Hernández, when asked what the mindset resembled in the clubhouse. “Well, it comes somewhat that it gets greater than the game and something extremely sad occurred. As invigorated as we were about the game what not, it’s one of our siblings and a few of us became together what not. Saving the game and stress over us as humans is truly simple. So it doesn’t feel like we just beat the Dominican Republic to progress.”
It was an extreme scene at loanDepot park after the game. Puerto Rico director Yadier Molina left a family room with Díaz’s family, who was noticeably stirred up by the right-hander’s physical issue. His sibling Alexis kept on crying as he walked about the passages in the arena.
“It was hard to see that,” said Dominican Republic left defender Juan Soto. “He’s a gigantic pitcher, a huge individual. You simply feel awkward and vulnerable in a circumstance like that.”
Díaz was being kept an eye available and it was hazy when the right-hander left the arena. The Mets, nonetheless, reported it as a right-knee injury and said he will go through tests on Thursday. That will at last give greater clarity on what was a sad physical issue to one of the game’s best closers.
“Everything is in God’s grasp,” Molina said. “Assuming something will occur, it will work out. Festivities have existed since I’ve been conceived. I simply trust that Edwin will be alright, that his family is OK and we’re appealing to God for him, for his loved ones.”
