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Whit Merrifield got hurt in practice hours after the Braves signed him to help replace the injured Ozzie Albies

The Braves might be cursed this season.

The Atlanta Braves went into this season among the favorites to win the National League pennant and World Series. And though it’s only July, luck clearly hasn’t been on the Braves’ side this season.

On Monday, it possibly got even worse.

Braves star second baseman Ozzie Albies suffered a fractured wrist in Sunday’s series finale against the Cardinals. The Albies injury forced Atlanta to call up prized prospect Nacho Alvarez Jr. and to take a flyer on 3-time All-Star Whit Merrifield (recently DFA’d by the Phillies) for some added infield depth.

Well, Merrifield hardly made it out of the clubhouse before he became the latest Braves player to get hurt.

Merrifield took a grounder off his throwing hand while participating in infield workouts, and he left the field to get evaluated by the Atlanta training staff. Braves manager Brian Snitker was almost at a loss for words when he told reporters about Merrifield’s incident.

“Can’t make it up,” Snitker said of the bad injury luck this season. The Braves lost MVP Ronald Acuña Jr. to an ACL injury early in the season, and Spencer Strider also suffered a season-ending injury after two starts. Max Fried, Michael Harris II and Albies are currently on the IL. It’s been rough.

Merrifield did avoid a fracture, so there’s that.

But Braves fans could not believe that Merrifield already got hurt.

This was how Twitter/X reacted

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LSU baseball loses first midweek matchup of the year to Ragin’ Cajuns

Pitching woes doomed the Tigers in their 8-3 midweek loss to Louisiana.

Pitching woes doomed the Tigers in their 8-3 midweek loss to the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns. It was the first time LSU has lost a midweek contest this season.

It was great to see [autotag]Javen Coleman[/autotag] make his first appearance on the mound for LSU since having Tommy John surgery. That was about the only bright spot on the night for LSU.

In the bottom of the first inning, [autotag]Cade Beloso[/autotag] hit an RBI Triple to right field to score [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] and give LSU an early 1-0 lead.

[autotag]Thatcher Hurd[/autotag] came into pitch in the top of the second inning and the Ragin Cajuns greeted him by scoring two runs and taking a 2-1 lead. LSU tied it up in the bottom of the second when [autotag]Whit Merrifield[/autotag] grounded out but [autotag]Brayden Jobert[/autotag] scored to make it 2-2.

[autotag]Riley Cooper[/autotag] came into pitch in the top of the third inning and Louisiana-Lafayette hit a two-run blast off of him to give them a 4-2 lead. LSU cut into that lead in the bottom of the inning when [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] scored on a [autotag]Jared Jones[/autotag] sacrifice fly to make it 4-3.

Then the wheels fell off in the top of the fourth inning when LSU misplayed two flyballs (one by [autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag] and one by Crews) that ended up scoring two more runs for ULL and increasing their lead to 6-3 after four innings.

[autotag]Blake Money[/autotag] came into pitch in the top of the seventh after [autotag]Sam Dutton[/autotag] allowed a runner to reach on a walk. The first batter he faced hit a two-run bomb to increase the lead to 8-3 for the Ragin’ Cajuns.

In the bottom of the ninth, Morgan hit a two-run blast to cut the lead to 8-5 with no outs but that is as close as LSU would get to coming back in this one.

With the loss, LSU moves to 29-7 for the season. The Tigers will hit the road to Oxford, Mississippi, for a weekend series against the Ole Miss Rebels. Game 1 is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. on Friday.

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Toronto’s Whit Merrifield hit one of the weirdest/coolest home runs against the Yankees

We’ve never seen this happen before.

A double doink!

I’ve been watching baseball for a long time and just when I think I’ve seen it all something crazy happens that makes me shake my head and say out loud to me dog – how in the world did that just happen?!

That happened last week when I saw a minor league baseball player hit the strangest fair ball that stuck in the dirt a few feet in front of home plate.

And it happened again on Sunday when I saw Blue Jays right fielder Whit Merrifield hit a home run against the Yankees that bounced on the top of the wall not once, but twice.

Seriously, this was nuts:

A double bouncer off the top of the wall! How does that even happen!?

Twitter had reactions.

Whit Merrifield, quien no está vacunado, fue transferido a los Blue Jays y los fans no paran con las bromas

Con uno de los peores récords en la Liga Americana, los Kansas City Royals llegaron a la fecha límite de cambio como vendedores claros, pero su récord no ha sido la única fuente de decepciones en las últimas semanas. En un reciente viaje a Toronto, …

Con uno de los peores récords en la Liga Americana, los Kansas City Royals llegaron a la fecha límite de cambio como vendedores claros, pero su récord no ha sido la única fuente de decepciones en las últimas semanas.

En un reciente viaje a Toronto, 10 jugadores de los Royals no pudieron asistir por su estado de vacunación. Canadá, al igual que E.E.U.U., requiere que los no ciudadanos estén vacunados contra COVID-19 para poder entrar al país. Whit Merrifield, dos veces jugador del All-Star y jugador de los Royals, estuvo entre esos 10 jugadores e hizo enojar a los fans de los Royals cuando sugirió que se vacunaría por un equipo con oportunidad de jugar contra Toronto en los playoffs.

Pues bueno, este martes los Royals tomaron la decisión por Merrifield: ellos lo transfrieron a Toronto.

Traducción: Unas fuentes le dijeron a ESPN que Whit Merrifield ha sido transferido a los Toronto Blue Jays.
Uno tiene que creer que se vacunará.

 

La semana pasada, Merrifield intentó retractar sus comentarios, especialmente después de que los fans de los Royals lo abuchearon. Vía ESPN:

“Yo no dije que la gente entendió mal, simplemente expresé mal lo que quería decir. Si lo que se interponía entre los playoffs y yo era esta vacuna, consideraría ponérmela. No dije que no me la pondría por ningún otro equipo, simplemente fue el punto de mostrar cuánto valoro jugar en los playoffs”.

Pero la posibilidad de jugar para los Blue Jays no fue algo que Merrifield vio venir.

Parece que Merrifield tomará los planes apropiados para recibir su vacuna o si no, no podrá jugar los juegos en casa para su propio equipo. Podría ser el primer jugador con un relevo para jugar por él en el país de su propio equipo. Obviamente, los fans de la MLB están haciendo bromas sobre el estado de vacunación de Merrifield.

Así reaccionó Twitter:

Traducción: Merrifield debería ser una verdadera inyección en el brazo de los Jays. Un gran refuerzo para sus esperanzas.

 

Traducción 1: Para una vacunación que será mencionada más tarde…
Traducción 2: Merrifield a los Jays.

 

Traducción 1: Esa es una buena forma de lograr que se vacune.
Traducción 2: Según fuentes le dijeron a ESPN, Whit Merrifield ha sido transferido a los Toronto Blue Jays.

 

Traducción: Bien por los Royals por hacer su parte para aumentar las tasas de vacunación.

 

Traducción: Así Merrifeld:
no vacunarse con los Royals / vacunarse con un equipo de playoffs

 

Traducción: Whit Merrifield intentando entrar a Toronto porque no está vacunado:

 

 

No verán ninguna transferencia más graciosa en esta temporada.

 

Artículo traducido por Ana Lucía Toledo

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Whit Merrifield, who is unvaccinated, got traded to the Blue Jays and MLB fans had plenty of jokes

A real shot in the arm for Toronto!

The Kansas City Royals headed into the trade deadline as obvious sellers with one of the worst records in the American League, but their record wasn’t the only source of disappointment these past few weeks.

The Royals had 10 players miss a recent road trip to Toronto due to their vaccination status. Canada — like the U.S. — requires non-citizens to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to enter the country. Royals two-time All-Star Whit Merrifield was among those 10 players, and he angered Royals fans when he suggested he’d get vaccinated for a team with a chance to play Toronto in the playoffs.

Well, the Royals might have made the decision for Merrifield on Tuesday: They traded him to Toronto.

Merrifield did try to walk back on his remarks last week, especially after Royals fans booed him. Via ESPN:

“I didn’t say people misunderstood it, I poorly articulated the point I was trying to say. If what was standing between me and the playoffs was this vaccine, I would consider getting it. I didn’t say I would get it for another team, or wouldn’t get it for this team, it was simply a point about showing how much I value playing in the playoffs.”

But the prospect of playing for the Blue Jays was not something that Merrifield likely saw coming.

It seems expected that Merrifield will make the appropriate plans to get vaccinated or else he won’t be able to play home games for his own team. He could be the first country-based platoon player in baseball. That, of course, had MLB fans making jokes about Merrifield’s vaccination status.

LSU baseball takes a bite out of the Colonels on Tuesday night

It was a nice tuneup game for the Tigers as they prepare for a road series against Alabama this weekend.

Let’s turn up on a Tuesday night in Baton Rouge, shall we?

Last week, LSU had a disappointing mid-week loss at New Orleans and they entered this game with the hope of turning things around. The Tigers did just that against the Nicholls State Colonels in a 10-6 win that was an even bigger blowout until a ninth-inning rally.

[autotag]Bryce Collins[/autotag] got the start on the mound for LSU as coach Johnson threw a few different pitchers tonight. Also, it turns out [autotag]Jacob Berry[/autotag] (the number one ranked college prospect, per the MLB network) and freshman [autotag]Josh Pearson[/autotag] are pretty good at the whole baseball thing.

Pearson finished the game 3-for-6 with five RBI and two homers, and Berry finished the game 3-for-4 with two RBI and one homer. In the bottom of the second inning, LSU got on the board with a RBI single by Pearson followed by a Berry RBI single to make it 2-0 Tigers.

In the bottom of the third inning, LSU scored five runs starting with a [autotag]Josh Stevenson[/autotag] RBI single followed by a Pearson three-run homer and a Berry solo homer to make the score 7-0 after only three innings.

The Tigers would start to sub a bunch of regulars out of the lineup for some young guns to get them some playing time, but that would not keep them from scoring even more runs as they scored one run in each of the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to take a 10-0 lead.

Pearson hit his second homer of the game as he blasted one to dead center in the bottom of the fifth. [autotag]Tyler McManus[/autotag] hit an RBI single in the bottom of the sixth and [autotag]Whit Merrifield[/autotag] scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the eighth inning.

In the top of the eighth inning, Nicholls started attempting to mount a comeback as they scored a run due to a solo homer to left-center field to get the Colonels on the board. In the top of the ninth, the Colonels scored on an RBI single and a wild pitch to make it 10-3 Tigers with no one out and runners on the corners.

[autotag]Will Hellmers[/autotag] was then called into the game to try and close out the win. The first batter he faced laced an RBI double to right field which led to another pitching change as [autotag]Trent Vietmeier[/autotag] would come out of the bullpen with runners on second and third with no one out and a 10-4 lead.

The first batter he faced hit a sacrifice fly to make it 10-5 Tigers, but it got the first out of the inning. His second batter grounded out for out number two, but his third batter hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 10-6 with two down and a runner on second.

So, in came [autotag]Eric Reyzelman[/autotag], who struck out the only hitter he faced as the Tigers won 10-6. With the win, LSU improves to 30-14 (12-9 SEC). The Tigers will take a trip to Tuscaloosa for a weekend series with the Alabama Crimson Tide starting Friday night at 6 p.m. CT.

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Whit Merrifield: ‘Jose Altuve took my spot’ in 2018 All-Star Game

Kansas City Royal Whit Merrifield is now calling himself a two-time all-star, in light of the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal.

Kansas City Royal Whit Merrifield is now calling himself a two-time all-star, in light of the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal.