Cleveland manager Terry Francona said yesterday that his pitcher was injured while "probably rather aggressively ripping off his shirt" and catching his thumb on a chair in the locker room. ("Probably"?)
Sammy Sosa of the Cubs sprained a ligament in his lower back after sneezing too hard. (2004)
Clint Barmes of the Rockies fell and broke his collarbone while carrying a package of deer meat (from teammate Todd Helton). (2005)
Tigers catcher Brandon Inge pulled an oblique muscle while adjusting a pillow for his three-year-old son. (2008)
After hitting a walk-off grand slam for the Angels, Kendrys Morales jumped in the middle of his teammates' celebration at home plate . . . and broke his left leg. (2010)
Rickey Henderson suffered frostbite on his left foot when he fell asleep on an ice pack. (1993)
Baltimore's Marty Cordova dozed off in a tanning bed and sunburned his face. (2002)
Then-minor league pitcher Steve Sparks attempted to rip a telephone book in half . . . and dislocated his left shoulder. (1994)
Not baseball, but . . . in 2012, Los Angeles Kings forward Dustin Penner suffered back spasms while eating pancakes. (He missed only one game, though.)
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We should not forget Glennallen Hill's 1990 trip to the DL.
"Hill landed himself on the disabled list because he woke from a nightmare about spiders chasing him, and in a frightened semiconscious state, he fell through a glass table and suffered scrapes and bruises on his feet, knees and elbows."
(per Ian Hunter's story in his BlueJayHunter blog)
To add to your amusing list , some years ago English goalkeeper Dave Beasant severed a tendon in his big toe by dropping a bottle of salad cream on it.
I vaguely remember Wade Boggs tweaking his back while taking off his cowboy boots.
What about Bob "The Gardener" Ojeda?
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-22-sp-3384-story.html
New York Mets left-hander Bob Ojeda underwent successful surgery Wednesday after he nearly severed the upper third of his left index finger with an electric hedge clipper in a gardening accident at his Long Island home.
I’m late to this one but I remember a lot of weird ones in 2010 including Chris Coghlan tearing a meniscus trying to pie a teammate in the face.
Some of these I just don’t believe at all.
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