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Jung-Ho Kang has surgery, out 6-8 months

The Pirates have announced that Jung-Ho Kang had surgery tonight on a "displaced lateral tibial plateau fracture and lateral meniscal repair." He should be able to return to competition within six to eight months. Obviously, that means Kang's season is over, and he could potentially miss a month or two of next season as well.

In case you missed it, Kang left Thursday's game after Chris Coghlan slid into his left knee in an attempt to break up a double play.

Coghlan is obviously out of the base path and is trying to take Kang out, but I'm not sure I want to waste much time being angry at Coghlan, because this kind of slide happens a lot.