Reigning AL Cy Young winner Blake Snell is expected to miss at least one start for the Rays after breaking the fourth toe on his right foot in a bizarre bathroom mishap.
Snell explained what happened to reporters on Tuesday – but his description of the events left us with more questions than answers. A mysterious “granite thing” fell apart and injured Snell as he attempted to move it around his bathroom.
“I got off the plane, went home, took a shower, got out of the shower, and then there’s like this big, like, granite thing that I don’t like looking at. And I lifted it – it’s like a three-piece set, and like this pole that comes up two and a half, three feet. And then there’s a top. You, like, put something on it? I don’t know what you would put on it in the shower. Like, it’s right outside the shower.
So I’m like ‘ah I’m moving this, this is stupid.’ Dry it off, put my clothes on. I start to move it, I lift it and I go to move it where the tub is, just to set that down… but I lifted it up thinking ‘alright, I’m going to lift this whole thing up and put it over here and get it away from where I’m always at.’ And then I lifted it up and it wasn’t glued to the pole, and the pole came crashing down and then… yeah. That was the story. Really dumb.”
It’s very clear that Snell hates the “granite thing,” whatever it is, and it’s entirely unclear why he’s keeping it in the bathroom. Snell is 2-1 this season in four starts, and has allowed six earned runs in 25 innings pitched.
