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Jeff Bennett to Disabled List After Punching Dugout Door

Posted Jun 25, 2009 9:29PM By Knox Bardeen (RSS feed)

Filed Under: Braves, MLB Injuries

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Jeff BennettAfter giving up the go-ahead single to Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez on Wednesday, Atlanta Braves reliever Jeff Bennett punched a door near the dugout in anger, breaking his hand.

As self-inflicted injuries go, Bennett's broken hand wasn't quite as silly as Milton Bradley tearing his ACL while arguing with an umpire back in 2007 or Gus Frerotte head-butting a wall after a touchdown and missing the second half of a game in 1997. But, it was dumb nonetheless. And it landed Bennett on the 15-day disabled list.

After punching the wall, Bennett, seeing a bump already rising on his hand beneath his non-pitching pinky finger, pushed the broken bone back into place and trotted back out to the mound to face the Yankees in the seventh inning.

Nick Swisher led off the inning with a home run, but Bennett actually made it through the rest of the inning, broken bone and all, unscathed.

Bennett will have surgery to place a pin in his fifth metacarpal below the pinky finger. He hopes to be back in a few weeks, but manager Bobby Cox thinks it will be more like four to six weeks until Bennett is ready to pitch again.

The Braves called up 24-year-old Boone Logan to fill the void left by Bennett's broken hand. Logan is 4-2 with a 3.28 ERA in 29 relief appearances for Triple-A Gwinnett.

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