Bogaerts Will Miss At Least Two Weeks With Left Ankle Injury

Xander Bogaerts - who leads the Red Sox in batting average (.368), slugging percentage (.711), OPS (1.111), hits (14), doubles (7), and total bases (27) - has been put on the 10-day disabled list. The Red Sox expected him to be out of action for approximately two weeks.

Bogaerts suffered a small crack in the talus bone in his left ankle on Sunday when, in the seventh inning, he chased after the ball into foul territory and slid into the third base dugout.

The Red Sox have recalled Tzu-Wei Lin from Pawtucket.

Jessica Flynn, a sports medicine physician at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, MA, believes Bogaerts will likely be out for longer than 10-14 days.

The most common cause of an injury to the talus is when the ankle rolls ligaments or the joint capsule avulse a sliver of bone off of the talus. Treatment is immobilization in a boot and rest. The return is dependent on how quickly sprain heals and can be two to six weeks.

The other possibility is that it is a stress fracture of the talus. I would be more suspicious of that if the fracture was not the result of twisting the ankle. A stress fracture of the talus can also take four-to-six weeks to heal.

Six weeks from today is May 21.