Jonathan Aranda lands on IL with fractured wrist after nasty Giancarlo Stanton collision
First baseman Jonathan Aranda is heading to the 10-day IL with a broken wrist after his scary collision with Giancarlo Stanton during Tampa Bay's 7-4 loss to the Yankees Thursday in The Bronx.
The injury took place in the bottom of the fifth when Stanton chopped a ground ball to third baseman Junior Caminero.
Caminero charged in to barehand the ball and whipped an inaccurate throw that forced Aranda to step in front of the first base bag as Stanton barreled toward the base.
Aranda, 27, was forced to make an awkward movement in an effort to tag the Yankees outfielder, where he jammed his hand before keeling over in pain and heading back to the clubhouse.
After the game, Aranda told reporters: 'There's a lot of pain. I've never felt that anything like that before…everything was negative on the X-ray. Tomorrow we'll see our doctor and see what happens.'
The Rays' Jonathan Aranda after injuring his wrist in Thursday's loss to the Yankees.
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Aranda arrived for Friday's game against the Dodgers with a brace on his left wrist and he shared he had fractured his wrist but that the injury wasn't 'catastrophic' and that he hopes to return this season.
He won't be able to use his left wrist for the next three weeks, though.
'That's pretty good news, given what we saw yesterday,' Rays manager Kevin Cash told reporters Friday. 'Let's see how the bone heals. I think re-imaging is in about three weeks, but we'll continue to remain optimistic.'
The Rays' Jonathan Aranda is hitting .316 with a .871 OPS and 12 home runs this year.
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Aranda, who earned the first All-Star nod of his career this season, is hitting .316 with an .871 OPS and 12 homers.
Those numbers mark a huge jump from last year, when the Tijuana, Mexico native hit .234 with a .737 OPS and six home runs.
At the time of his injury, Aranda was leading the Rays in WAR with 2.3.
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