For Holliday, it's walk — don't run - STLtoday.com
DENVER • Cardinals left fielder Matt Holliday walked into the visitors’ clubhouse at Coors Field on Wednesday, his stride looking more comfortable than the hesitation and pain he had leaving the field Monday with a tear in his right quadriceps... Holliday sustained a partial tear of his right leg muscle while tracking a fly ball in the second inning Monday against Colorado. A scan of the muscle taken Tuesday afternoon revealed the severity of the tear — which was less than Holliday and the Cardinals initially feared. “It feels fine walking,” Holliday said in his first comments since the injury. A concern going into the exam Tuesday was that the muscle was not just torn, but that it had retracted as a result of the tear. Muscles, when damaged, can roll up – called retraction – and a procedure is necessary to unwind them before healing. Holliday’s muscle did not retract, leaving him to receive treatment to reduce swelling and encourage healing. Holliday said as he ran toward a bloop base hit Monday night he felt the muscle pop. He felt like he still had a chance to catch the ball and lunged for it, but “my leg just wouldn’t go,” he said. At the time he believed it would be a Grade 3 (complete) tear, similar to the one that Matt Adams had and required surgery to fix. Source: www.stltoday.com
