Puerto Rico upsets Dominican Republic, but loses Edwin Diaz to a knee injury | Flippin' Bats

and Puerto Rico came out on fire, they went from probably the highest celebrating winning that game to, all of a sudden, the lowest when Edwin Díaz injured his

knee

during the postgame celebration, it's hard to even talk about that, I mean, we were in shock to see it, it happened while we were walking from we had just finished on set and we were walking into another room to start watching the game and we heard we have people on staff running around saying, "Oh my God, Edwin is." Edwin is hurt, they're taking him off the field and I'm like, what do you mean they took him off the field?

I just saw the last one about the game, the game ended and they say when the team was jumping. and down there celebrating Edwin Diaz fell to the ground they had to take him off the field we see it now if you're looking they put him in a wheelchair they took him off the field uh it's being evaluated as an

injury

to his right

knee

so what was thought in a moment when it's possibly an Achilles tendon, you know, the social media doctors were out in full force, yeah, um, but it's officially, they're in, they're looking at his right knee, nothing has happened while we're recording .

Immediately following Wednesday night's game, nothing has been announced as of yet. The Nets tweeted that Edwin Diaz injured his right knee after tonight's WBC game. It will undergo an imaging test tomorrow and we will update when appropriate. Look, he's heartbreaking, yes, he's heartbreaking. He is apart. of just one human being hurt this way it's heartbreaking in other ways this is the best closer in the game of baseball right now this is heartbreaking for Edwin Diaz it's heartbreaking for the New York Mets for Mets fans and to be quite Honestly, it's heartbreaking for the game of baseball because there's not much better than Edwin Diaz the doors opening in the bullpen Timmy's plan the trumpets the trumpets blaring he comes in and blows people's doors off for three games in a row three straight outs was unbelievable this is a big loss it's heartbreaking I'm struggling to talk about it I had a hard time when it happened to even accept it for a while and this has repercussions on you know this is hard for the Mets and for the game of baseball for sure Yes, and I think it would also be something like breaking up with his brother and also playing on the Puerto Rican team.

Alexis Díaz was on the field crying with him, that's where you really understood the magnitude, I think. of the

injury

and the impact that this has, as you mentioned, not only on the game of baseball and the Mets but also on the World Baseball Classic because many teams are afraid that their main players, the best at each position, will come and play a A big tournament like this during the middle of spring training, so what does this mean for the tournament moving forward? I think that's probably the question that after talking about Edwin Díaz as a human being, I think that's probably the most important thing here is Edwin Díaz.

He's hurt and this really sucks, but after all, everything's okay, well, he got hurt in this World Baseball Classic tournament, right? What does this mean for the tournament? And there are a lot of people now saying that this tournament means nothing. This is ridiculous. It should never have happened and for many reasons I need to address this because it couldn't be further from the truth. Let's start with the people who say this tournament means nothing to you. People say that because you look at these players on every team. and everyone is playing super hard, everyone says they are having the time of their lives, the energy, the passion, the ability to be able to represent their home country or who else, the fans in the stands, the ones crying. tears of joy crying after the loss the energy the passion the energy of the crowd and it doesn't matter where you are, so when we're saying this tournament doesn't matter, I would say that's completely false, that's ridiculous, this tournament continues to grow the game of baseball, is fostering players' love of the sport, is fostering fans' love of the sport, and continues to grow the sport globally.

I think the first and most important thing to say is that you can say. This tournament means nothing to you, but turn on the TV and you will immediately see how important this tournament is to all the players involved, all the fans in the stands and to so many people involved in all of this. I totally agree with everything you say. said here and another thing people need to realize it was a freak accident he was celebrating jumping up and down this could have happened at any time during spring training if you're jumping up and down in the house club with him if you're walking I don't want to interrupt you, that's important to what you just said last year, 2021, the New York Mets spring training had a day where the coaches tasked them with the outfielder catching a ball and they were going to celebrate the victory. the World Series to practice what they would do the team went crazy they were throwing their gloves they were jumping up and down they were doing exactly what the Puerto Rico team was doing tonight after the victory because they wanted to practice that feeling of celebrating for your Por Of course, it's a freak accident that can happen anywhere, they literally practiced it last year in spring training, yeah, it's one of those that you never want to happen, you never want to happen to one of the best at his position. in the game. and during a tournament where everything is celebrated at such a high level on the world stage, but this is what happens in sports, in every sport you will see people get injured early in unfortunate circumstances and that is what happened here.

I mean, our hearts go out to Edwin. Diaz and we hope that it's nothing that will keep them out for the entire season and hopefully he'll eventually be able to return at the end of the season, but at this point it's unfortunate, but it happened and we still have to do it. We will continue to celebrate this game in this tournament, obviously, as I said, we don't know at the moment, apparently there will be more tomorrow. Alex, I and the Flipping Bats team will be on our way to Miami tomorrow, so immediately when we get there.

The first program we are up and running, we will have an update. I'm sure you've all heard it, but we'll have our opinion on the whole situation and just to finish your point here about how strange. accident, this is, you know, I was thinking about this and Gavin locks up Torres' ACL just jogging toward third base this spring training Michael Soroka Taurus Achilles walking into the locker room a couple of years ago Royce Lewis, the top prospect of calves, Torres slipping on the ice in the Offseason, these things happen, so we can point out exactly what he was doing.

The truth is, he wasn't even playing a baseball game when this happened. Yes, he was celebrating and it happened at the WBC. Sure, but these things happen. I remember Paul vividly. George years ago, in exhibition training for the US team at the Olympics, in exhibition training, he tore his ACL for a while. I mean, it's a freak accident that happens and unfortunately for Edwin Díaz it happened tonight while he was celebrating Puerto Rico's monumental victory that we would be remiss if we didn't talk about because today, all the games were great, but this one stood out above the rest due to the talent on both sides and from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the crowd.

It was crazy, it was crazy, they told us because this was the last game, the game of the night in Miami, there was a game before which the fans lined up starting at 9 00 a. m. For this game, both Dominican fans and Puerto Rican fans were waiting. all day waiting for the first game to end just to come in and be a part of this moment and the moment was so big it was so electric that you could feel the energy of these fans through the television and throughout the game every play , even if it was a pop, a pop out, Fly ball, yeah, the fans were going crazy, if you weren't watching, you were listening to it, you're like, oh home run, oh no, that was just an easy standard, yeah, baseball player on the team, yes, but the crowd was going crazy, a lot of people had the Dominican Republic as favorites for the entire tournament and they were eliminated from pool play.

Yes, I think that in every game that the Dominican Republic played in this tournament, they were the big favorites to win from the beginning. against Venezuela, when they lost a lot, the games in which they won this game, they were the big favorites and one thing that I feel that should be talked about more and more is that it is the crowd and just this game like a whole baseball in The Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico is baseball, unlike most people here in the United States know it and it is special and to see those crowds to see the atmosphere and the game that we have and this is what there are more unfortunate things. about the situation, but one of the unfortunate things about the Edwin Diaz situation is that it rightfully became the conversation after the game, concerned about a human being.

The game that took place was probably one of, I would say, definitely the most electric game. In the history of the World Baseball Classic and probably one of the best games, it ended 5-2. Puerto Rico took an early lead. A lot of things happened around big plays, big hits, but for me the most exciting thing that happened in this game was Alex Francisco Lindor. and his little league home run inside the park little league home run was so cool it was unbelievable and a weird mistake by Julio Rodriguez who just had a weird bounce that went past him and the gate didn't stop running and then there was another mistake when The ball was trying to go in, that moment was electric, I think it really changed the game for Puerto Rico, yes.