Cincinnati Reds second baseman Jonathan India got spiked in a game June 2. He also homered that day and drove in three runs the next day without missing an inning.
He got spiked again in Houston two weeks later, shrugged off the blood, insisted nothing so trivial could keep him out of the lineup and that he intended to play every game this year. Then he hit a two-run homer in his first at-bat the next day.
On Wednesday, India rested.
Not that he was given much of a choice.
“He didn’t want it,” Reds manager David Bell said.