Miami Marlins’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. plays during Game 1 in an NL wild-card baseball playoff series, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
As of Friday, October 13, 2023
#By TENAJH SWEETING
#Tribune Sports Reporter
#tsweeting@tribunemedia.net
#BAHAMIAN Jasrado “Jazz” Chisholm Jr underwent successful surgery on Tuesday to repair a nagging toe turf injury that sidelined him during the Major League Baseball (MLB) season.
#The Miami Marlins centre fielder is expected to spend the next three months of the offseason rehabbing the injury that now prevents him from wearing a shoe or running. The announcement came via a post to his Instagram page in which he wrote the surgery was successful.
#The Marlins player had a tough time with the injury bug this MLB season. The 25-year-old was away from the team on three separate occasions throughout the year due to injuries.
#He sustained the turf toe injury on his right foot in a game versus the Cincinnati Reds in early May.
#The MLB star crashed into the wall of the left-centre field at the LoanDepot Park after trying to make a play in the eighth inning to prevent the team’s eventual 6-5 loss to the Reds. He spent more than a month nursing the first of three injuries in what was thought to be a right foot contusion.
#Despite being told he might possibly need surgery for the toe injury, Chisholm Jr opted to return to the Marlins on June 27.
#Less than a month after rejoining the team, he went down again, this time with a left oblique strain that kept him out of action for most of July. The injury occurred after the 25-year-old took a swing at the ball in the top of the sixth inning against the Atlanta Braves.
#Additionally, the MLB’s face of “The Show” video game was out of the lineup again this time briefly as he suffered from knee discomfort in September.
#The last injury to sideline him was critical as the Marlins needed him at the time to vie for a position in the National League playoff race. The Marlins went on to secure a wild card spot. However, they were unceremoniously ousted 2-0 by the Philadelphia Phillies in the best-of-three wild card playoff series.
#The team lost game one 4-1 and got swept after a 7-1 game two loss.
#Chisholm Jr appeared in 97 games for the Marlins this season. He averaged 19 home runs, a team-high 22 stolen bases, batted .250, notched 51 RBIs (runs batted in), and 50 runs scored. The Bahamian was one home run shy of turning in a 20-20 season which would have made him the first Marlins since Hanley Ramirez in 2010 to accomplish this feat.
#The early ending of the Marlins season was disappointing but the team witnessed Chisholm Jr become the first player in franchise history to notch grand slams in back-to-back games.
#The Marlins earned their fourth playoff appearance in 31 years and it was their second time making it in the last four years.