Miami Marlins outfielder Dane Myers joined the pantheon of MLB players to suffer injuries in self-inflicted, embarrassing fashion when he fractured his left ankle on Saturday. The 28-year-old explained to reporters on Sunday how the injury happened, telling them that he kicked a door in the visitors' clubhouse after being ejected the previous day. Dane Myers revealed his fractured left ankle was a result of kicking the clubhouse door in frustration after his ejection yesterday.
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com/ZvFXyytLOS "I took a swipe at the door with my foot, and I didn't think I kicked it that hard, but ended up fracturing my foot," Myers said. "However long it’ll be it’s not going to be easy. I’m a competitor.
I want to play. I don’t really lookat our record at the time. I want to win every game that we play so when thingsdon’t go well, I take it pretty hard.
I don’t want to say I care too much but Icare a lot. If things don’t go my way I have to learn how to deal with it theright way." According to Craig Mish of the Miami Herald, Myers is facing a six-to-eight-week absence.
The former sixth-round pick said that composure is the "last missing piece" to his game. "(Manager Skip Schumaker) just wants to see me stay even-keeled and not take the emotions onto the field or off the field like I did," Myers said. Self-inflicted injuries aren't limited to baseball players, as men's tennis professional Arthur Rinderknech went down with a similar issue during .
