{"id":36112,"date":"2020-08-04T11:11:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=36112"},"modified":"2020-08-04T11:12:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:12:41","slug":"atlanta-braves-ace-mike-soroka-out-for-season-with-torn-achilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2020\/08\/04\/atlanta-braves-ace-mike-soroka-out-for-season-with-torn-achilles\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves Ace Mike Soroka Out for Season With Torn Achilles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/atlanta-braves\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> ace <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sorokmi01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Soroka<\/a><\/strong> is out for the season after tearing his Achilles on Monday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/new-york-mets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Mets<\/a>. This is not only a devastating injury for the Braves, but for Major League Baseball. Soroka, a native of Calgary, is one of the game&#8217;s bright young stars and is an ambassador for baseball in Canada. In 37 career starts, he&#8217;s compiled a 15-6 record, 2.86 ERA, and has only allowed 15 home runs in 214 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Soroka will miss the rest of the season with a torn right achilles tendon. However<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbbowman\/status\/1290478599145848832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>The Injury<\/h3>\n<p>The injury occurred in the third inning when Soroka attempted to cover first base. The 23-year-old let out a scream and tumbled to the ground on his first step off the mound. Soroka gingerly walked a few steps but ended up dropping to his knees. Along with a trainer, Braves manager <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/snitkbr99.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Snitker<\/a><\/strong> helped assist Soroka to the clubhouse.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\u2014 FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1290438307780993027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I went out there, [Soroka] said he knew it was [the Achilles],\u201d Snitker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/mike-soroka-exits-with-injury\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a freak thing that happened. I\u2019m sorry it did.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Impact on Braves Rotation<\/h3>\n<p>With the loss of Soroka, the Braves are now without four of their projected starters &#8212; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hernafe02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Felix Hernandez<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/foltymi01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Foltynewicz<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hamelco01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cole Hamels<\/a><\/strong>. In the meantime, the Braves will rely on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/friedma01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Fried<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/newcose01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sean Newcomb<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/toussto01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Touki Toussaint<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wrighky01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Wright<\/a><\/strong>. If Atlanta hopes to win the NL East for a third consecutive year they&#8217;ll need their young arms to step up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody else is going to get an opportunity,\u201d Snitker <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/braves-ace-mike-soroka-leaves-003148299.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. &#8220;Things like that happen. These guys will regroup. Somebody is going to get an opportunity to do something really good. Our young guys are going to continue to get better. 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This is not only a devastating injury for the Braves, but for Major League Baseball. Soroka, a native of Calgary, is one of the game&#8217;s bright young stars and is an ambassador for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2924,"featured_media":36113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2,1071,35],"tags":[48,291,951,164],"class_list":["post-36112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-braves","category-featured","category-mlb","category-news","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-brian-snitker","tag-mike-soroka","tag-new-york-mets"],"modified_by":"Aaron Cornett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}