Dumb baseball injury alert: Beer mug puts Rangers’ Diekman on the DL – CBSSports.com

From Sammy Sosa’s sneeze to Jeremy Affeldt’s frozen hamburger patties to Glenallen Hill’s fear of spiders, there’s a long history of weird and downright dumb baseball injuries. Our latest example? Rangers reliever Jake Diekman, c’mon down, you’re the next contestant!

The Rangers last road trip concluded in Boston, so presumably Diekman was taking the mug out of his luggage and it had broken during the flight back. Gotta package it better next time.

Diekman is a lefty, so he’ll need the index finger to be completely healed before he can start throwing again. It’ll probably be a few weeks, depending upon how deep the cut is. He’s pitched to a 2.73 ERA, 0.97 WHIP and 36 strikeouts in 33 innings this season, so this is a tough loss for the struggling yet first place Rangers.