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Pedroia Played Post-Season With Broken Bone In His Hand
By Administrator | November 10, 2007
In today’s newspaper, Rob Bradford of the Boston Herald reported that Dustion Pedroia played the last month of the regular season and the post-season with a cracked hamate bone in his left hand.
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In an interview yesterday, the leading candidate for the AL Rookie of the Year Award (to be announced Monday) stated that he doesn’t know when he suffered the injury, but said that it was discovered during a bone scan on September 10th. He endured the last month of the AL East chase and the Red Sox post-season run to their second world championship in the last four years with the broken hand.
Dr Donald Sheridan operated on the hand on Tuesday in Scottsdale, AZ. The second baseman is presently wearing a soft cast on the hand… he is restricted from using the hand until early December.
Despite the injury, Pedroia hit .302 in September and then hit .283 with 2 HR and 10 RBI in fourteen post-season games.
He was critical to the Red Sox seven game winning streak to close out the playoffs. He went 7-for-13 with five rbi when the club had its back against the wall in Games 5, 6 and 7 of the ALCS… he then led off Game 1 of the World Series with a home run en route to hitting .278 with one home run and four rbi in the four game sweep of the Colorado Rockies.
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