Morning Marquee: Chicago Cubs’ Schwarber injured in collision with Fowler

The Chicago Cubs went down early but proved that they are fighters. But once the Arizona Diamondbacks struck early, a key piece of this 2015 National League Central roster took a brutal blow. Fans at the game and watching at home held their breath after witnessing two players collide.

While the bats were on fire for the Chicago Cubs, outfielder Kyle Schwarber was carted off the field after running into center fielder Dexter Fowler on a fly ball off the bat of Jean Segura. Segura, who homered on the first pitch of his first at-bat, rounded the bases and slid into home plate safely to record an inside the park home run.

The young second baseman put himself in the history books as the seventh player to go yard and record an inside the park homer in consecutive at-bats. Rather impressive but the injury to Schwarber somewhat took the spotlight.

As soon as both men tumbled to the ground, social media blew up. I, for one, thought he suffered a serious injury almost immediately and figured he’d spend at least 15 days on the disabled list. It turns out that he suffered a sprained left ankle and will have an MRI done later on today. Now just because it’s a sprained ankle, doesn’t mean he’s in the clear just yet.

The Chicago Cubs went down early but proved that they are fighters. But once the Arizona Diamondbacks struck early, a key piece of this 2015 National League Central roster took a brutal blow. Fans at the game and watching at home held their breath after witnessing two players collide.

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