Dustin Fowler has been called up to the Oakland Athletics less than a year after he was carted off the field with a tear of his right patellar tendon in his major league debut, the team announced.
Fowler was a member of the New York Yankees at the time and ran into a wall trying to catch a foul ball in right field in the first inning of a game on June 29 against the Chicago White Sox. Fowler collided with a metal electrical box and was taken to a nearby hospital. He was taken out of the game before he could make his first career at-bat.