St. Louis Cardinals’ Albert Pujols grabs his left wrist after colliding with Kansas City Royals’ Wilson Betemit upon a fool around during initial bottom in a sixth inning during Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, Sunday, Jun 19, 2011.
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R.B. Fallstrom Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Cardinals initial baseman Albert Pujols will be out for 4-6 weeks with a fractured left forearm.
The group voiced a formula of an MRI as well as CT indicate Monday, a day after Pujols was harmed during a home diversion opposite Kansas City. The group pronounced Pujols has a non-displaced detonate of his left radius as well as his arm is in a splint.
General physical education instructor John Mozeliak was scheduled to plead a incident Monday afternoon.
The three-time NL MVP was harm after Wilson Betemit strike a chopper up a center off Cardinals starter Jamie Garcia.
Second baseman Pete Kozma obscure a round as well as done a jump-throw to first, pulling Pujols off a bag toward home. As a slugger attempted for a tag, Betemit ran in to his glove palm as well as Pujols went down to a belligerent in pain.
“He strike me upon my wrist as well as my shoulder,” Pujols pronounced afterward. “He kind of tangled me back. It’s a toughest fool around to have as a initial baseman. It’s a bang-bang play. we saw a replay a integrate of times, though we didn’t unequivocally wish to demeanour during it.”
Pujols is attack .279 this year as well as was starting to feverishness up after a delayed start. The group pronounced his left shoulder was sore, though no constructional repairs was found.
Betemit pronounced there was no approach to equivocate Pujols.
“I was using tough as well as a round arrived during a same time we got to a base,” Betemit said. “I couldn’t do anything about it. He strike me upon my left arm, that’s because he forsaken a ball. we strike him as well as afterwards we saw him upon a ground. That’s partial of a game. we couldn’t do anything about it.”
