Yelich out for season after fracturing kneecap

MIAMI — Milwaukee Brewers star Christian Yelich will miss the remainder of the season after fracturing his proper kneecap in Tuesday’s victory over the Miami Marlins.

The Brewers introduced the extent of the damage following the Four-Three win over the Marlins. Normal supervisor David Stearns mentioned Yelich will return to Milwaukee for added exams on Wednesday, including that it is not but identified if he’ll want surgical procedure.

Yelich, 27, was injured within the high of the primary inning when he fouled a pitch off his kneecap.

Yelich remained on the bottom for a number of minutes earlier than getting up and limping to the dugout.

“At the beginning, we really feel terrible for Christian. This can be a man who’s carried us in a variety of methods during the last two years,” Stearns mentioned. “He may’ve [been] two-and-a-half weeks away from a repeat Most Helpful Participant award. In order that’s the place our ideas go first.

“From a group perspective, we have loads of guys in that clubhouse who will harm tonight. This can be a intestine punch for an evening. After which we have to get better and play actually sturdy baseball. We have been by means of this earlier than as a company — two years in the past, nearly to the day, we misplaced Jimmy Nelson to a equally freak damage, and we competed at a really excessive degree for the rest of that season. And I anticipate our group to compete at a equally excessive degree going ahead.”

Supervisor Craig Counsell mentioned Yelich was crushed by the information that his season is over and added that the group has to maintain battling because it did to win Tuesday’s sport.

“We have now to maneuver ahead,” Counsell mentioned. “We really feel terrible for Christian. That is the factor kinda resonating with me proper now’s he is a particular participant, and it is a pleasure to observe him play day-after-day. And he is the perfect at what he does. So not having the ability to see that day-after-day is certainly no good. However we gotta reply, and we’ve got a terrific alternative, and the blokes battled to a terrific win tonight.”

With Tuesday’s win, the Brewers moved inside 1½ video games of the Chicago Cubs, who’re enjoying in San Diego, within the race for the second NL wild card.

“We battled to a win. And that is what we’re gonna need to do the remainder of the yr is simply discover methods to do it,” Counsell mentioned. “Guys are gonna need to step up, guys are gonna tackle larger roles, and we have loads of guys doing good issues proper now, and that is how we’re gonna need to win video games.”

Yelich ends his season batting .329 with 44 residence runs and 97 RBIs and led the majors in slugging share and OPS coming into Tuesday’s video games. Yelich has sufficient plate appearances to qualify for the batting title and turns into simply the third participant to complete a season with a professional OPS of 1.100 or increased. Along with his 1.100 OPS, he is tied for second within the NL in homers, third in batting common and third in stolen bases with 30.

Yelich’s 7.1 Wins Above Substitute this season trailed simply these of Cody Bellinger (eight.2), Mike Trout (eight.1) and Alex Bregman (7.Four). For the season, the Brewers are 67-63 in video games during which Yelich performed and 9-5 in video games he missed.

“Clearly terrible, everyone knows Yeli and how much man he’s,” mentioned Marlins supervisor Don Mattingly, who had Yelich in his last two seasons in Miami earlier than his commerce to Milwaukee. “You hate to see a participant like that get harm down the stretch. He is stepped into the famous person realm as a participant, and MVP final yr. You do not need to see that occur to a group down the stretch.”

Trent Grisham, who continued Yelich’s at-bat and struck out, took over in proper subject for Yelich.

Grisham will get further enjoying time in Yelich’s absence. The outfielder tied a group rookie sport report together with his five-hit outing Monday and his double performed a task in Tuesday’s go-ahead rally.

“An enormous blow, what he means to this group and the yr he is been having,” Grisham mentioned of Yelich’s damage. “We want him the quickest restoration he can get. It is thrilling to assist contribute and do my finest to assist win video games.”

Info from The Related Press and ESPN Stats & Info was used on this report.