At the end of the best and healthiest season of his career, Garrett Cooper’s awful injury luck struck again Tuesday when he fractured the pinkie on his left hand in the fifth inning of the Miami Marlins’ 6-4 win against the New York Mets.
Cooper got hit by a pitch on his left hand in the top of the fifth inning and immediately went out of the game. X-rays revealed a fracture in his fifth metacarpal, the Marlins announced.
Trevor Williams tried to pitch Cooper high and inside, and the Mets pitcher’s 92-mph fastball got away from him, plunking the All-Star slugger on the outside of his hand. Cooper hopped up and down in pain, and immediately headed back to the visitors’ clubhouse at Citi Field, replaced by rookie Charles LeBlanc as a pinch runner.
