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Yanks' Fowler vows to fight back from injury

Dustin Fowler's Major League debut may have ended in unimaginable fashion, but the Yankees' rookie outfielder vows that it will simply make his first at-bat that much more special.

Speaking from a Chicago hospital on Friday, Fowler told the New York Post that he'll battle back from a ruptured patellar tendon in his right knee. Fowler suffered the injury when he crashed into the first-base-line rail while chasing a foul ball in the first inning against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.

With doctors worried about an infection, Fowler underwent surgery at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center.