Source: detroit.cbslocal.com --- Wednesday, May 31, 2017
By JAKE SEINER, AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — If Mike Trout has ever been concerned about his safety when stealing a base, it hasn’t held him back. For the AL MVP and many of Baseball’s best baserunners, it might not matter anyway. In those split seconds after ball beats runner to the bag, decisions aren’t made with much calculation. If they see a way to the base, they’ll contort their body any which way to try to get there. “When you look down there, you see the throw is going to beat you, you have to do something to try to escape,” the Los Angeles Angels star said last week. Sometimes the result is a sweet, highlight-worthy slide . But as Trout experienced over the weekend, there’s a risk to letting instinct take hold in those spots — he tore a ligament in his left thumb diving into second base in Miami on Sunday. Trout was set to have surgery Wednesday to repair the thumb, which put him on the disabled list for the first time in his career. It’s yet to be seen if the injury will add caution to Trout’s baserunning after years of brazen, crowd-pleasing evasions of infielder’s tags. Trout has been a regular Houdini on the basepaths throughout his career, and he’s particularly adept at missing tags when he goes in headfirst. He gave Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson the slip on a stolen base last September with one, flipping onto his right side at the last moment, whipping his left arm away from Donaldson’s glove and gett ...
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