At some point after his third appearance of the season, after making his MLB debut earlier this month, 24-year-old, 2017 1st Round pick Seth Romero fell down some steps and broke his right hand while bracing himself for the fall.
Romero showed up at the park the next day with a swollen right hand and was taken to get X-rays on it.
“He came in, trainer came into my office, and said Seth’s right hand is swollen, we’re going to get him an X-ray today. We had to wait for the technician. We were actually in the game, playing the game when [trainer] Paul [Lessard] came back out and told me, ‘X-rays showed that he had broken his hand,’” Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez explained.