Victor Caratini has been an absolute revelation for the Cubs this season, hitting .571 with a 1.647 OPS that includes a pair of doubles and one of the Cubs’ two runs batted in Thursday night. But the second of those hits may have come at a steep price, as Caratini revealed after the game.
He said through an interpreter that he “felt it crack” on the first swing of his final at-bat, speaking about his left hand. He then took his batting glove off upon reaching second and noticed something really was amiss. Early reports are a broken hamate bone, a fairly common injury among baseball players due to the stress of the knob of the bat on the hand.