Cleveland pitcher's mangled finger proves you shouldn't mess with drones
In one of the more bizarre baseball injuries of recent memory, the Cleveland Indians' starting pitcher Trevor Bauer sliced open his right pinky finger while repairing a drone last week. The cut was so gnarly, in fact, that the team's manager, Terry Francona, had to push Bauer's scheduled start back a day.
But one day, apparently, wasn't enough.
Bauer tossed only 21 pitches in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night before the blood started gushing.
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Warning: The damage on Bauer's finger pictured below is not recommended viewing material for the weak of stomach.
Bauer exited the game in the first inning, and was replaced by Dan Otero. Cleveland is up 2-0 over Toronto in the series.
Cleveland manager Terry Francona, however, is no stranger to blood in the playoffs. (Or flipping off TV cameras, as he did Monday night.) Francona managed the Boston Red Sox in 2004, when the team won its first World Series in almost 100 years.
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Pitcher Curt Schilling's bloody sock is one of the iconic moments from that year's run up to the Series. Schilling was pitching with a torn tendon in his ankle, which Red Sox doctors attempted to stitch up. By the end of his Game 6 performance in the ALCS, blood had soaked through his sock.
The team went on to beat the Yankees and then the St. Louis Cardinals, marking the first time a team went on to win the World Series after being down 0-3 in the ALCS.
The Indians haven't won a World Series since 1948. Maybe a little bit of Francona blood magic, though unfortunate for Bauer, is just what they need.
