Manny Machado is not accustomed to being placed on the injured list.
However, that is reality for the Padres third baseman as he landed on the IL with a fractured metacarpal in his left hand on Friday ahead of San Diego’s first tilt of a three-game series against the Red Sox. It marks the first time in more than eight years that the six-time All-Star was placed on the IL.
Machado sustained the injury on Monday in San Diego’s 4–0 loss to the Royals when he was hit by a pitch on his left hand with the bases loaded in the fourth inning. On Wednesday, Padres general manager Bob Melvin announced that the 30-year-old initially suffered the fracture on his left hand but that he still did not believe that Machado would land on the IL, per Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune.
