Yonder Alonso's season is probably over. A bone scan revealed he has a stress reaction in his lower back that was aggravated by his clumsy albatross like slide into home plate on August 31st. If he should continue to play it could lead to a stress fracture and no one wants that.
"My lower half went one way, and my upper went the other," Alonso said. "I was dealing with (the tightness) a little bit prior to that, but it was playable; it wasn't like I was hurting it more.