Miami Marlins third baseman ECU alum Connor Norby left Saturday’s game with the Houston Astros with what’s being called a left oblique injury.
Not what you want to see five days before Opening Day.
Connor Norby is leaving the game with the training staff after being shaken up on a slide into third base. Seemed to have stretched out that right side while holding onto the bag. pic.twitter.com/dl2TyRtbMk
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Norby is listed as questionable for Opening Day. He was scheduled to undergo imaging on Monday to determine the severity of his injury.
“I’ve been better, I’ll tell you that,” Norby told MLB.com on Sunday morning, according to Marlins reporter Christina De Nicola. “I’ve been better. It’s not horrible right now. I feel a little bit better right now than I did last night, but last night was not fun.”
Clayton McCullough on Connor Norby: pic.twitter.com/755Oaz59iZ
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Norby laced a hit that he stretched into a triple, sliding headfirst into third base. He was complaining of discomfort on his swing of the triple and the stretch to get to third certainly didn’t help.
He walked off the field with fellow ECU alum and manager Clayton McCullough. De Nicola said he was feeling better Sunday but “he lacked strength on that side of his body.”
De Nicola reports he also pulled the same oblique last spring with the Baltimore Orioles but this injury was much worse.
“I went to third, thought it was a cramp, wanted a second — wasn’t a cramp, and then the adrenaline kind of wore off, and I was just kind of hanging out and talking to the trainers in the locker room,” Norby told MLB.com. “It just kept getting tighter and tighter, and then last night, not a lot of movement was going on.”
Burleson has two-hit game
ECU alum Alec Burleson had a two-hit game for the St. Louis Cardinals in Saturday’s 8-2 win over the Miami Marlins.
The Cardinals had a four-run first inning, helped by Burleson’s double and run scored. In the sixth, he singled in a run to give the Cardinals a 5-1 lead.
Burleson finished Spring Training with a .224 average (11 for 49), six runs, eight RBI and three homers.
Agnos has solid final Spring Training game
ECU alum Zach Agnos found out Sunday that he would be optioned back to the minors and would not make the Opening Day Colorado Rockies roster.
He pitched in the Rockies’ final Spring Training game and was solid with two hits allowed and two strikeouts during the ninth inning of the Rockies’ 7-3 win. Agnos got a lineout, single and strikeout. Agnos then gave up a single to put runners on first and third before Agnos struck out Chase Strumpf to end it.
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