Mark McGwire, no stranger to the disabled list, is hurt again.
One of baseball’s most powerful yet injury-prone players, Oakland’s McGwire injured his right foot while running the bases against the Cubs Tuesday and will fly back to Oakland for an examination.
The A’s said McGwire had a strained arch, but McGwire said it felt similar to an injury to his left fascia–connective tissue in the foot–that forced him to miss the final two months of the 1994 season. “It was impossible to walk on it. There was a lot of swelling,” said McGwire, who was on crutches in the clubhouse. “It’s just mind-boggling.”
A’s GM Sandy Alderson said if it is a fascia injury and a complete tear, “the rehab process begins immediately and we’d be looking at six weeks or so.”
McGwire was injured scoring from first on Terry Steinbach’s double. “It popped right before I hit third,” said McGwire, who has missed 235 of the club’s last 420 games due to injury.
