On Wednesday, we found out together that Atlanta Braves third-baseman-and-outfielder Austin Riley was being placed on the Injured List with what has been described in ever-more-depressing fashion:
- “discomfort”
- “swelling… higher discomfort”
- “knee issues”
- “strain”
- “knee ligament injury”
- “partially torn LCL”
Originally, this was thought to be a re-injury of the knee that bit him late last season – almost exactly 14 months ago. In that instance, he ‘only’ missed a month of games at Gwinnett.
This injury… may be different.
Riley met with the media Thursday afternoon ahead of the sluggish night that the Braves’ had in Marlins’ Park and discussed the injury, which occurred during an apparently routine workout during the Minnesota series.