Exactly a week ago in Oakland, Calif., Royals outfielder Jorge Soler walked out of the trainers' room in the visiting clubhouse at Oakland Coliseum with a boot on his left foot.
He had fouled a ball off the foot and bruised the big toe. He was going to be fine, just needed a few games off to heal.
On Friday at Kauffman Stadium, he finally felt well enough to enter the field again.
But six innings into his first defensive start since the foul-ball incident, Soler was removed from Friday's game because of a fracture of the left first metatarsal.