Throughout the grind that is Major League Baseball’s regular season, injuries are bound to happen. If anything is certain, it is that injury bug has infected this year’s Cleveland Indians. Two crucial, and serious, injuries have taken place of late.
Michael Brantley went down on August 8 with an apparent ankle injury (still currently on the DL, although mild in nature) that seemed much more serious at the time than it was. Upon the injury, where Brantley sat on the turf in left field defeated, the energy in the stadium had been drained.
Not only had Corey Kluber‘s complete game gem been seemingly wasted, but the steady bat of Brantley appeared to be lost for the season.