Braves Lose Ronald Acuña Jr. For Season On Freak Harm

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The Atlanta Braves are arguably the very best staff in baseball, and outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. is their talisman as the most effective gamers in baseball.

However, they are going to be with out their famous person for the rest of the season after a freak harm on Sunday resulted in a torn ACL.

Acuña was main off second base within the Braves recreation in opposition to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday when catastrophe struck. Have a look.

How does that even occur? Non-contact ACL accidents are fairly widespread, particularly in soccer. However, I can’t keep in mind a baseball participant getting damage like that off the highest of my head.

Sadly, this isn’t the primary time he’s torn his ACL in his profession. The primary time, it was his proper knee that gave out. That point, it was a state of affairs that one may anticipate could lend itself to harm.

Simply hours after the sport, the Braves confirmed that Ronald Acuña Jr. would miss the remainder of the season.

He already apologized to the staff’s followers, who absolutely don’t maintain any resentment in direction of their famous person.

Acuña Jr. is likely one of the most proficient gamers we’ve seen in years. However, it looks like we’ve been robbed of some prime years of this unimaginable expertise.

As for the Braves, it is a large blow. Sure, they did win the World Collection in 2021 after Acuña bought damage. However, that staff had numerous property to make strikes with,  just like the commerce that acquired outfielder Adam Duvall. Their depth within the outfield was key to overcoming Acuña’s harm.

They don’t have these benefits this 12 months, sadly. They may in all probability make the playoffs, and are in a great place by the primary two months of the season at 30-20. However, it’s arduous to see this staff making a run deep into October with out him.

They did win on Sunday, 8-1.