Broken fingers point to end of season for Pena
The Tampa Bay Rays lost Carlos Pena for the rest of the baseball season when a CC Sabathia pitch hit the slugger on the hand and left him with two broken fingers on Monday.
Pena was hurt on an 0-1 pitch in the first inning, when the ball bounced off his left hand before hitting his bat.
Officials ruled he had swung at the pitch, and after Pena was examined by trainer Ron Porterfield and manager Joe Maddon for several minutes, he continued his at-bat and swung at a third strike.
"It's very discouraging," Maddon said of Pena, who had an American League-leading 39 homers. "He was swinging the bat about as well as anyone I've seen this season."
Pena said he was "crushed" by the injury.
"I was really very much looking forward to the next three weeks. I wanted to keep putting it out there, trying to do the best I could. Now I have to wait another year."
Tampa Bay went on to fall 4-1 to the New York Yankees in the first game of a double-header.
"I knew when the ball hit me it was going to be bad," Pena said. "You don't take a 95 mph fastball on the finger and live to tell about it - or the finger live to tell about it."
Pena will meet with Rays medical staff this week to determine whether he needs surgery.
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