Evan Longoria’s season ended on June 5th when he and Brandon Crawford collided while attempting to field a routine ground ball to the true shortstop position. Unfortunately, with a runner on first and a lefty pull hitter up, the infield was shifted to the first base side and no one was playing true shortstop. What resulted was a strange, football-style collision between two veteran infielders. Crawford was able to roll away and dust himself off after the hit, visibly angry but physically fine, while Longoria lay face down in the dirt, clearly in pain. In the replay, Longoria’s glove arm is outstretched, his left shoulder exposed as Crawford barrels into it, sending one part of Longoria’s body in a different direction than the rest.
Evan Longoria and “The Collision”
