Gamer Gone: A’s Lefty Luzardo Breaks Finger on Video Game

Seattle Times ^ | May 3, 2021

[nickcarraway]

Athletics left-hander Jesús Luzardo will be off the mound for a while — and maybe off video games, too.

Luzardo is out indefinitely after breaking the pinkie finger on his pitching hand when he thumped a table while playing a video game before his start Saturday.

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“Before the game he was playing a video game and accidentally bumped his hand on the desk as he was playing the game,” Melvin said. “He came in, was a little bit sore, training staff checked him out, we threw him in the cage before he went out there, watched him warm up. He was comfortable pitching, the training staff was comfortable with him pitching. After the game we got an X-ray and there was a hairline in the pinkie finger.”

[nickcarraway]

Professional athletes have in their contracts that they can't do stuff like scuba diving, mountain biking, skydiving. But video games?

[ClearCase_guy]

I don’t see the Racism angle, but I’m sure it’s there somewhere.

[drSteve78]

“How ‘bout this, you got one job to make stupid money, and dumass, you blew it!”

Of course, once healed, he may have a better curve ball. Or he could end up throwing into the dirt.

[Nathan _in_Arkansas]

Accidently bumped his finger playing a video game?

More likely he slammed his first on a table after losing a round in an online video game.