Pittsburgh’s Harrison suffers broken finger
The Pittsburgh Pirates placed second baseman Josh Harrison on the 10-day disabled list after he broke the pinky finger on his left hand for a second time in a year.
The team said Tuesday that Harrison fractured the fifth metacarpal in the finger when he was hit with a pitch by Miami’s Jose Urena in the third inning of Pittsburgh’s 7-3 win Sunday over the Marlins. He is expected to miss six weeks.
The two-time all-star broke the same bone last September when he was hit by Cincinnati’s Tyler Mahle.
Todd Tomczyk, the Pirates’ director of sports medicine, called the injury recurrence “very uncommon.”
The Pirates called up infielder Max Moroff from Class AAA Indianapolis to take Harrison’s spot on the roster. Adam Frazier started in place of Harrison at second base on Monday night against Colorado.
Rays lose Kiermaier: Tampa Bay centerfielder Kevin Kiermaier has a torn ligament in his right thumb that requires surgery and could be sidelined two to three months.
The Rays placed the defensive whiz on the 10-day disabled list, a day after he was injured sliding headfirst into second base during a 10-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.
“I kind of expected it,” he said. “Hearing those words that I’ll out for months at a time is really hard to take right now.”
This will be the third straight season the two-time Gold Glove winner will miss significant time because of injury.
Kiermaier, batting .163 with one RBI, missed 48 games in 2016 after breaking his left wrist diving for a ball. Last season, he fractured his right hip sliding feet first into first base and was out 61 games.
Toronto has rare postponement: Even moving indoors couldn’t get the Toronto Blue Jays back on the field.
Toronto postponed Monday’s series opener against Kansas City after chunks of ice crashed down from the nearby CN Tower following a weekend of freezing rain, including one that punctured a hole in the Rogers Centre roof.
Andrew Miller, the Blue Jays’ executive vice president of business operations, was standing in the infield with two colleagues around 10 a.m. Monday, examining existing damage, when a falling piece of ice tore a hole about three feet by five feet in the PVC roof over right field, sending ice and pieces of insulation crashing onto the turf.
“We saw it happen,” Miller said. “It was pretty frightening. It was really loud.”
It’s the first postponement at Rogers Centre since a game against the Royals was called off following a collision between two panels of the stadium’s moving roof on April 12, 2001. The teams will play a doubleheader on Tuesday.