Boston Red Sox star Chris Sale has had a rough go of it on the injury front. Things didn't get much better on Sunday against a bitter rival in the New York Yankees.
Sale was hit with a 107-mile-an-hour line drive, breaking his pinky finger. Afterward, he seemed focused on getting over this injury and getting back at it on the diamond:
“What can you do? Everyone gets knocked down. How do you get back up? That’s where I’m at again,” Sale said, via NESN. “So, get back up, dust yourself off, clean it off, get back to it.
Additionally, Sale offered an interesting perspective. The Red Sox star talked about how the competitor in him wants to be upset. However, Chris Sale the human being won't let him:
“Some of the other stuff, sometimes you think, ‘Why me?’ But two things I know for a fact right now: I have a lot of love in my corner, a lot of people that care about me and want me to succeed. And somebody somewhere is having a worse day that I am right now. That’s a fact,” Sale added.
“The competitive side of me doesn’t want to accept that, but the person in me knows that. And if I want to sit here and cry about a broken finger and boohoo for me, I could do it. It’s just not fair to everyone in here and it’s not fair to people in the world, honestly. Like I said, there’s a lot more people out there worse off than I am right now.”
The Red Sox star had recently made his return from a stress fracture on July 12. A setback pushed his return back a month. It's another in a long line of unfortunate injury setbacks for the veteran.