PITTSBURGH—Braves outfielder Eury Perez avoided serious injury when he collided with Cameron Maybin in the bottom of the ninth inning of Sunday's game at the Pirates.
With two outs, Maybin and Perez both ran for Jordy Mercer’s fly ball to left-center. Maybin got to it first but Perez kept running until he crashed into Maybin near the wall. Maybin couldn’t hold on and the ball fell for an RBI double.
Perez stayed down on the field for several minutes before eventually walking to the clubhouse. He was replaced in left field by Joey Terdoslavich. Maybin stayed in the game.
Perez said through an interpreter that he he didn’t see Maybin and took a hit to his stomach.
“He checked out OK,” Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. “You going to ask me how I am? I was a little nervous. I thought we were going to lose two players out there but luckily (Maybin) is OK and Eury checked out. It was more his torso than it was the head. There’s nothing there so hopefully we dodged a bullet.”
The Braves went on to win 2-1.
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