The Padres fan base didn’t exhale for over 24 hours when Fernando Tatis Jr. left early in a spring exhibition late last month. He ended up being fine in the end, but the next time Friar Nation got that type of scare it would always be too soon.
So of course it only took a few weeks for things to come crashing down once again.
In the bottom of the third, Tatis took a hard chop on a knuckle-curve that ultimately struck him out. But as he ended his follow through, the young star collapsed to the ground in obvious pain.