The Atlanta Braves confirmed the worst outcome for the star rightfielder's knee injury suffered this afternoon in Pittsburgh.
in Sunday’s victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates was a complete left ACL tear. He will have surgery “at a date yet to be determined” and will miss the remainder of the 2024 season.
In 2021, Acuña was having one of the best statistical starts to his career at that time, batting .283/.394/.596 with 24 homers and 17 stolen bases when he tore his right ACL trying to make a leaping catch against the Miami Marlins. He missed the remaining 80 games of the 2021 season and the entire World Series championship run for Atlanta.
It’s not the first injury to the left knee for Acuña, either. In May of 2018, he missed about a month after hyperextending the knee in a Sunday getaway day game against the Boston Red Sox when trying to beat out an infield single. Acuña commented to the media after today’s game that this injury felt similar to the 2018 injury, and he expected to miss about a month before returning to play.
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