Pedroia Played With Broken Bone In Playoffs

The Boston Herald

Pedroia admitted yesterday that he played the final two months of the season with a cracked hamate bone in his left hand.

The second baseman doesn’t know when he suffered the injury, but it was discovered during an MRI and bone scan on Sept. 10. He didn’t undergo surgery until Tuesday. He is wearing a soft cast and is restricted from using the hand until late November or early December.

“Some days I would wake up and it would be hard to grip a bat,” Pedroia said. “I changed my grip a little bit on the bat and went from there. It was just one of those things you know you have to take care of after the season, but you have to play through. A lot of guys have done that. You definitely don’t want to shut it down and have surgery during the whole thing. We just had to find a way to fight through it.”

This is why you have to love Dustin Pedroia. The guy had a horrendous April, was close to being sent down and just turned his season into a Rookie of the Year caliber one. He gutted it out in October with a broken bone in his hand for the team and you just have to respect that.