Jazz Chisholm Jr. said Friday he will not start wearing a protective cup after taking a foul ball to the groin Thursday. He was hurt in the fourth inning of a 5-1 loss to the White Sox, then came back to speak on the choice that followed the injury.
Thursday in the fourth inning
Chisholm fouled a 2-2 curveball from Sean Burke off his groin and stayed down for several minutes while trainer Tim Lentych attended to him. He then limped off the field to get treated with ice packs.
The pain was "a million," Chisholm said Friday, and he added, "I've never worn a cup." He also said, "I'm not going to change," after the foul ball turned a routine at-bat into a visible problem on the field.
Boone checks the next morning
Aaron Boone said the trainers and Chisholm followed up the next morning and that he felt confident the second baseman would be fine. Boone also said, "They wanted to do some things this morning just to be sure, but I sent the lineup out last night because I felt confident about it and if we had to adjust we would."
Boone framed the cup issue as a generational split, saying, "That's the difference between this generation and my generation." He added, "The first time I heard Adrian Beltre didn't wear a cup, blew my mind, but now I know a lot of these guys don't wear cups."
Chisholm said he never wore a cup in the minor leagues, where it is mandatory, and joked that he was not going to borrow one now even though he has borrowed a bat from teammates this season. The immediate question now is whether the groin hit leads to anything beyond the pain and treatment he already described, but his stance on the equipment itself did not change.
