ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Adrian Gonzalez felt fine when he worked out with the Red Sox on Thursday night at Tropicana Field. A routine trip to the mall on Friday changed that.
Gonzalez was getting a cup of coffee at the International Plaza in Tampa when he bent over to say hello to a child in a stroller. That’s when he felt his lower back lock up.
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This is a belated April Fool's joke, right? In a year when the Red Sox starting 9 has averaged more days on the DL than off, comes this giggle-inducing "Mall injury". What's next? "Middlebrooks sidelined by freak electric tooth brush accident". If there was any open question about baseball players being the most brittle of professional athletes, it has been settled by the 2012 Boston Pink Sox.