Barb’s Burblings

Roberts suffers dislocated elbow
He’s undoubtedly out for the season. As you can imagine, I am not pleased. Luckily I was at book club when this happened, so didn’t watch it happen. By the time I turned the game on, they knew he had dislocated the elbow; here’s hoping the ligaments are OK. Poor boy.
OK, now I will try to focus on the “positives”:
1. The season has less than two weeks left, so he isn’t going to miss a LOT of time
2. He’s going out with a .314 average, which isn’t too shabby
3. He went out on a high note, with a 2 RBI triple
4. …
I can’t think of anything else. Oh, Brian.

After the game, the players were not focused on the defeat, but rather on losing a teammate. Third baseman Melvin Mora, whose locker is next to Roberts’, was saddened.
“I don’t know what to say about that situation, especially losing one of the best leadoff hitters in baseball; it’s tough,” Mora said. “There’s a lot going on this year, and this is a big one. You lose Brian Roberts — it’s like losing half the team.”
Roberts finished the season with a .314 batting average, 18 homers and 73 RBIs — all career highs — as he established himself as one of the league’s top second basemen.