The Oakland A’s just lost an entire middle infield.
The A’s placed shortstop Elvis Andrus and second baseman Jed Lowrie on the 10-day injured list on Sunday. With only seven games left in the season, neither of them will play again this year.
For Andrus, the diagnosis is a fractured left fibula in his lower leg. He was injured Saturday while running the bases, feeling a pop in his ankle as he rounded third but still continuing the rest of the way home to score the winning run. In other words, he went the final 90 feet on a broken leg.