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Atanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. told reporters through an interpreter that he was "fairly surprised" to learn the injury he suffered Sunday was an ACL tear.
Acuña initially believed he had suffered a sprain that would require a month of recovery rather than a season-ending tear, per Justin Toscano of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"Yeah, I was fairly surprised, because obviously, it's your body, you're the one kind of feeling through the pains," Acuña said via interpreter Franco García, per Toscano. "And that was sort of what it felt like, it felt like I was probably gonna be out for that duration that I said.