Matt Shoemaker injury update: Blue Jays starter leaves game with knee injury

Arthur Weinstein

Matt Shoemaker injury update: Blue Jays starter leaves game with knee injury image

Matt Shoemaker, the Blue Jays' most effective starter this season, left Saturday's game against the Athletics with a left knee injury.

The righty suffered the injury in a rundown in the bottom of the third inning. Afterward, he repeatedly slammed his fist on the ground in pain and frustration as trainers tended to him.

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Toronto later announced he had been diagnosed with a left knee sprain. He will undergo an MRI Sunday.

Signed by the Blue Jays to a one-year, $3.5 million contract in the offseason, the 32-year-old Shoemaker is off to a great start. After three scoreless innings Saturday he has a 3-0 mark and a 1.57 ERA in 28 2/3 innings.

 

Arthur Weinstein