Angels general manager Perry Minasian explained that it was Shohei Ohtani’s decision not to have an MRI exam done after he had some cramping in his pitching hand and before he tore his right UCL.
Safety concerns are being raised about a medical center in California after a nurse was recently pinned between an MRI machine and a bed during a freak accident, an investigation by KTVU uncovered.
Coach Brian Daboll said an X-ray of Jones’s right knee came back clean, but it will be the MRI taken on Monday that is expected to confirm the initial reports that it is indeed a torn ACL that would end Jones’ season.
This has been the Year of the Band-Aid in New York sports, the year of the gauze pad, the year of the ice pack, the Year of the X-ray and the MRI and the PRP injection.
A day after Oswald Peraza went for an MRI on his troublesome shoulder, the Yankees were left holding their breath as the infielder went for a second round of testing.
The news didn’t take long to spread back to Tampa after Aaron Boone said in Clearwater, Fla. that Gerrit Cole would be getting an MRI exam on his right elbow on Monday.
It would mark Aaron Judge’s first game since March 10, when he only took two at-bats and then underwent an MRI on his abdomen the next day that he and the team said came back clean.
Kodai Senga has been shut down from throwing since late February, when he was diagnosed with a moderate strain of the posterior capsule in his right shoulder.