Carlos Gomez was shaken, sore and afraid.
Carlos Gomez was , sore and scared.
Minnesota’s center player unrelenting a inferior back wrong when he crashed into the wall while production a breathtaking fastening in the elementary inning of Friday nightly’s game against the Cleveland Indians.
After a long run, Gomez jumped as he the wall and Ben Francisco’s urge before slamming into it on his right side. He puckered on the warning trail and used up more than a few resume in pain before he was on a backboard, loaded on a cart and to Lutheran Hospital.
Gomez to Progressive Field roughly 10 minutes after the Twins lost 5-4. He felt happy to be back.
“I never had so much pain in my life,” said Gomez, who walked carefully into the . “When it happened, I was petrified. I didn’t know what I did, but I assumed I broke something. I ran into it full speed.”
He said an MRI exam was destructive.
Gomez was taught along with three in the trade that sent Johan Santana to the New York Mets on Feb. 2. Gomez came in .248 with five homers, 33 RBIs and a team-high 21 bases.
He was replaced in center by Denard Span, who moved over from right. Moments delayed, Span extraordinarily into the wall only feet from where Gomez hit it while trying to latch Kelly Shoppach’s shot. Span couldn’t hold on as he made reference and Shoppach wound up with a two-run double to put Cleveland ahead 4-0.
Span limped back to his perception and in the game.
“Span hit the wall hard too,” Twins supervisor Ron Gardenhire said. “There’s a negligible bit of an publication on his groin, but he’ll be OK.”
Indians superior Eric Wedge was calmed to hear Gomez was OK.
“That was frightening,” he said. “He’s so athletic and that was something to see him go after that with no fear.”