Oct. 29: Morton underwent surgery to repair the fracture, tweets Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. He’s expected to be ready for Spring Training 2022.
Oct. 26: Braves starter Charlie Morton fractured his right fibula during tonight’s game against the Astros, the club announced. He’ll obviously miss the remainder of the World Series, but the team announced that he’s expected to be ready for Spring Training.
Morton got the start in tonight’s World Series opener. He was struck in the leg by a Yuli Gurriel comebacker that turned into a groundout to lead off the second inning. That ball evidently broke Morton’s leg, but he incredibly remained in the game to strike out Chas McCormick and induce a Martín Maldonado line out. Morton even returned to the mound to start the bottom of the third, punching out José Altuve before swelling in the area made it impossible for him to continue.
The Braves will have to rely on their bullpen to finish off what they hope to be a series-opening victory. A.J. Minter has worked a couple innings in relief of Morton, with Atlanta holding onto a 5-1 lead midway through tonight’s game.
Atlanta will obviously have to navigate the rest of the series without their top starter. Max Fried is already lined up to start tomorrow’s Game 2, with Ian Anderson the most likely candidate to take the ball in Game 3. The Braves added Kyle Wright to their World Series roster, and he’s capable of working multiple innings after starting for the entire season. Wright has worked almost exclusively in Triple-A this year, though, so he’s not an ideal option to start a World Series game. The Braves will also be able to add another arm to the roster as an injury replacement, but they were already reaching into their depth after fourth starter Huascar Ynoa suffered a season-ending shoulder injury last week.
It’s a relief that the Braves’ immediate announcement noted that Morton is expected to ready for the start of next season. Still, it’s a disappointing conclusion to another strong campaign for the well-respected hurler. Morton will be back in Atlanta in 2022, having signed a $20MM extension last month.
Unbelievable!
This makes game 1 even more important to take.
Give Strider a shot!
It is obviously hopeful thinking, but if the Braves take game 1, they may take the series in 4. Morton’s absence may not matter. The Braves saw enough crazy injuries this year and survived. Why not 1 more series?
Baseball G-ds want the Astros to win, but the Braves need to change that narrative.
Thoughts and prayers for you too. Blocked!
Do you think they will just use Smyly as a straight up stater now is necessary since Morton is done? It seems like Chavez should be the bullpen game guy and Smyly pitched well enough to earn a start with Morton out IMO.
Smyly’s problem has been giving up homerun. He has actually been pretty decent all season. I think ultimately, it will depend on where the Braves stand by the end of game 3. I’m in favor to give Smyly a chance, but it is risky given the Astros elite offense. I say, live and try not to die with your future. Give Muller or Strider the ball.
Just please no Newcomb and especially no Touki.
Muller please
Honestly where is Muller? I have to assume he hasn’t been pitching because he should have been added long ago during the Dodgers series when Ynoa went down.
Then they had another chance when they swapped out Webb for Wright.
Muller is the guy but I have to assume he’s not ready for action at this point.
I agree, no Newcomb or Touki.
A veteran like Smyly is exactly who you want to take the bump in a WS game. He will pitch well given the chance.
Why did you reply to yourself
Calling it right now,
Wright pitches gem in game 4!
^^^^
Called it!
@StartSolerMoveAlbiesDown It’s weird seeing you be positive. All it took was a World Series win.
They are playing well. I needed to see it to believe it.
Did you just … block yourself? What a weird first few comments lol
Haha, some dude with a gimmick acct posted below me, so I edited my initial post rather than make a new one.
Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.
@Fever Pitch Guy- I never thought you would admit that. “Missed WAR” literally just said to say 7 specific words and nothing else to admit it. You said it right away. All 7 words and nothing else. Sounds like too big of a coincidence to be untrue.
Boy, you guys really got him . . .
Amazing how one guy who posts something positive can get in your head.
Nebraska – What on earth are you talking about? I’ve had that damn fool Missed WAR muted for a while now.
Are you even the same Steve Nebraska? Or are you his stalker? Because the original Steven Nebraska had his account deleted.
Mental illness running rampant here on the internet.
saluelthpops – Ain’t that the truth, trying to cancel me just for mentioning the word prayers.
If this place really does ban people, then my stalker needs to be banned ASAP.
He’s made accounts with similar names trying to impersonate me.
He’s posting a bunch of unprovoked attacks even though I’ve muted him.
Now it looks like he’s impersonating Nebraska too.
What’s next, he’s gonna accuse me of being Tony Romo?
I am the OG Steve Nebraska. Also, respond “Lol” to this post if you suck toes!!!
I have never made accounts with similar names to Fever Pitch Guy. Literally never. There are some people doing that but those are actually people that are tired of the redundance. Apparently for different reasons. I really don’t care about it anymore. I just find it funny that he thinks muting me is something good for him when all it means is I can create a trap that ONLY he will ever fall into. FPG, I have never trolled you or created other names. You are in denial about how many people think you are callously mocking people’s genuinely heartfelt feelings in your posts by copying and posting the same thing every time. You are trying to pass it off as some kind of religious persecution. You are pretending people dislike your repeatative, repeating, redundant comment because you say the word “prayers.” Guess what? I pray, too. It has nothing to do with that. It’s the redundancy people are sick of. I know you say “It’s a common phrase that represents America” but it is not. Almost all of us live in America. It’s not the same thing as the star spangled banner. I’ve never heard it and most others on this site haven’t. It is a callous way to discuss someone’s injury by cutting and pasting. Anyway… I am sure you know there are truly terrible people in the world. They can privately identity themselves by typing “hopes and prayers for a speedy recovery.” It’s not like they can type that by accident. As far as I and many other people on this site are concerned that is a code phrase to admit that. Maybe you can slightly change your phrase? Or maybe you will just admit who you are. We will see. I personally hope you are better than that.
Yawn
I’m not going to keep up with who mutes who. Too much. I never mute anyone even though I might not like what they say. It might make me ignorant as to what’s going on. I’m not playing this game with you, Fever Pitch Guy. Not the one where you stop reading others comments but then want me to explain them to you. You were a cool guy before. Don’t ask me to be an interpreter just because you muted someone. All I can say is MetsWAR or whatever is only 1 account. He has never made other accounts mocking you. Other people might have but it wasn’t him. 2nd of all, every day you mute him you allow him to set up a trap for you and you fall in it every time. I like you. I’m just letting you know because I I liked you. If I didn’t care I would never tell you. You look bad now, though.
TheDP – I totally agree. People who come to a BASEBALL messageboard to seek attention instead of talk about baseball are boring as heck. I don’t have the time or desire to read what they post, what they write has nothing of value.
Fake Nebraska – Last time I’ll be responding to this latest account of yours.
I never asked you to keep up with who I mute. Your decision to not mute anyone is your choice. Unlike you, I don’t try to force my viewpoints onto others or try to force people to do what I want them to do. I have absolutely had it with Cancel Culture.
I don’t play games, never have. The original Steve Nebraska posted comments under that name, and those comments now show as posted by “Deleted User”. So that account was either banned or that person is playing games by deleting their account. You’re the one playing games, whether you’re the original Steve Nebraska or not. And the original Steve had already pointed out he had an imposter using his name in chats.
I never asked you to explain anyone else’s comments. If I mute someone, that means I don’t want to know what that person wrote.
I asked you to explain YOUR comments, not someone else’s..You falsely accused me of “admitting something” even though all I posted here was thoughts & prayers. YOU are the one playing games, not me. YOU are the one that is either colluding with Missed WAR, or more likely you are one and the same.
You would have absolutely no way of knowing whether Missed War has other accounts, if you weren’t him.. The fact that you insist he doesn’t have other accounts leads me to believe that you are one of his alt accounts.
“Allow him to set up a trap?” Again you are talking utter nonsense. I come here to TALK BASEBALL. And you come here to “set traps”? Seriously dude? You’re so obsessed with me that you somehow think you are “trapping” me in a pathetic attempt to force me to unmute you? And what exactly are you “trapping me” on? You’re acting like a pathetic mentally ill anti-social delusional child who is triggered because you can’t force me to do what you want me to do.
Let me make myself perfectly clear: You will NOT stop me from offering prayers to those who are injured or ill. I already said that beginning Friday I’d be considerably cutting back on my posting because of time constraints and the fact that my team is no longer player. But I WILL continue to keep posting. So don’t get delusional by thinking that your constant harassing of me has worked. It hasn’t, and it never well.
I’m thinking we got some folks on the spectrum up in here. Hey boys get a room already it’s clear you two are into each other. I can’t believe I just read all this nonsense typed by grown people. Does either one of your moms know you’re cyber bullies?
Steve before it was removed I saw the comment you’re going along with. D*ck move bro.
Hopes and prayers for Forgiveness for all these issues these gentlemen have against each other ! In Jesus name! Amen !
Isn’t this a baseball thread?
Nebraska to Guy: ‘You Used to be Cool, Man!’
Lol
Don’t count your eggs before they hatch. Snitker just brought in Puke Jackson. He just gave up a hit… Again. And a stolen base.
I’m not counting them yet. We are talking about the Braves. But this team has pushed through this all year. The Braves can beat the Astros with or without Morton. They need others to step up. I think they can do it!
Wow. I would have never guess someone would be so honest about it. I guess fever pitch is in the Ted Bundy class who is actually proud, huh?
Positive thinking/prayer & sexual predation on children are wildly disparate, man. Your coupling of them says a helluva lot about you – personally – though.
This comment didn’t age well… Luke 1.2 innings of shut out ball. He’s back.
The Mets “Missed WAR”
And did you watch what he did? He pitched really well and made 5 outs, he and Minter were absolutely huge in the situation the Braves were in after Charlie had to leave.
Bloody sock, broken fibula same difference?
Probably not
@StartSoler aka BumgarnerEqualsNLCS.. I would suggest keeping the Ian Anderson pic but changing your handle to EatingCrow2021. After the Braves win this World Series.
They ought to forcefully edit all his posts so it starts with “I was wrong about everything I said about the braves ever” that way people know the truth before they read his nonsense. Just looking out for new readers of the site.
Heard this first from my friend Gregg. Absolutely gutted
Lol
Striking out Altuve on a broken leg is pretty bad @$S
Brutal…. Killer injury in game 1.
I go complete wild card here, call up Bryse Elser!!!
But I know they will call up Newcomb, Webb, or Touki smh…
I like that idea. dude killed it in the Minors this year.
That would be great to bring in someone who the Astros had no book on. Like Gomer Pyle says. ” Sur-prize. sur- prize. sur-prize !!!!
Probably not many know who Gomer or Buzas is but I do. I saw a lot of talent at Bristol and New Britain.
RemiveManagerWins, if your still in the area, say Hi to Gerry Berthiaume, the GM. Tell him the Mets job is open and to update his resume. Are you happy DeMarlo Hale got his shot managing in Cleveland?
DeMarlo is a good man.
RemoveManagerWins: I agree with you. And DeMarlo deserves his chance. So does Tony DeFrancesco, who was under consideration for the Mets job before Beltran. His record managing in the minors is phenomenal. But alas, he was only given a first base coaching job. He certainly could manage at the big league level.
They can only add someone from the 40 man roster, I believe.
Couldn’t they designate someone on the 40 man to add and then activate? He was in their organization and had not played at the big league level this season. I guess it is prbably a moot point, but it would be interesting.
Is he similar to Bryse Elder per chance?
WHY BASEBALL GODS! NOT GROUND CHUCK!
Btw, this ump is terrible.
He seems like he wants to get back to the hotel. Calling strikes 2 inches outside.
Except when he calls strikes balls. He’s terrible.
At least he’s not Laz Diaz, thank God.
DANG! That was a quick diagnosis! Unfortunate for Charlie.
I imagine they have those guys that read X-rays.
It’ll be Touki or Newcomb
I said Braves in 7 specifically because of a strong C-Mart… bruh.
Need more runs today! With Charlie down this game is important.
Every game will be important because this is a big blow.
Ugh! So sorry this happened to someone who is so universally beloved by his fellow MLB players.
Wow. And they are saying it happened on the play before the Altuve at bat. That’s gutting it out
Right?
Makes me forgive him completely for having been an Astro. Pretty tough dude.
I’m sure he really cares that you cry yourself to sleep over the Astros still. 4 years later will you ladies ever grow a pair and move on ??
Lol
Fellas, look ^ how pissed this broad gets if you don’t like her favorite little baseball team. Kinda cute. What a little spitfire, uh?
Now don’t get your little astros* apron in a bundle, ma’am. Have your husband explain why people don’t like your team after you finish up with the dishes. Chop, chop! Kitchen ain’t going to clean itself there, sweetie.
Says the guy who cry’s himself to sleep every night about a game. Sorry the Astros make you weep daily. 2017 was a long time ago, is your life really that empty and boring that you live 4 years in the past? I shouldn’t expect more from a salty Yankees fan. Hey how’s that sealed letter going, love the idea that the choke artist Yankees franchise will come crumbling down soon enough. You really called a guy sweetie, ducky bent is officially out of the closet
Kyle Muller time
I’m a fan of Muller but we won’t see him this year. The walks still loomed pretty large for him in AAA. I don’t think they gamble with that with the ‘stros already potent offense.
But the team announced they expect him to be ready for spring training. REALLY?!!!!
I’m willing to bet there is not a Braves fan in the world that cares about spring training right now or any time in the next week and a half.
Nobody said spring training. Only you did. Start of next season is what i read, which lets me, as a fan, know that his injury is not career threatening. Loosen up, dude.
Rosenthal or Verducci or whoever was on the broadcast said he would be back by spring training. You’re having a schizo meltdown
Bucsfan….really, it wasn’t only me. The second sentence of the first paragraph clearly says the words “Spring Training.” Point is that the news broke in the fifth inning of game one of the World Series and I bet that their wasn’t a single Braves fan jumping up and down rejoicing that Morton is going to break camp with the team come March.
Reading is a skill that starts to be acquired about age 4. I didn’t make up the timetable of spring training myself.
This can be a difference maker.
Exactly mike127, who cares about ST. They don’t even have a agreement with the players for next year in place.
Morton can teach most of these soft MLB starters a lesson.
Complete that bad ass!!!!
Morton is the MFer who would throw a no hitter on a broken leg
No excuses. Mets lost everyone
Seriously. Stop. You’re trolling is no longer funny.
*Your
You’ve making injury excuses for the Mets all season.
*You’ve been
I guess thats true since you lost your freaking mind
Mets should stop signing guys that get hurt.
Everyone means every person.
I thought for sure I saw guys wearing Mets uniforms in September. I distinctly remember seeing Pete Alonso wearing a Mets uniform all season, and he’s pretty good.
Of course maybe your memory isn’t so good, and that would explain the comment. I know we haven’t seen any Mets uniforms in October.
They’re not all hurt. They just were eliminated from the playoffs.
They’re not all hurt just not very good
You forgot a “to” in the sentence. I’ll fix it.
No excuses. Mets lost to everyone.
I’m starting to think @MetsFan22 is really Jacob deGrom.
I’m telling you, it’s Cohen bro. Only he can be that delusional.
In the Name of Jesus, we release the Healing Anointing to Charlie.
Damn it.
Gotta call up Spencer Strider the guy with the best pure stuff in the entire system.
Eh? His 63 IP at AA isn’t anything to write home about and he has control issues throughout his career to go with his strikeouts. Talk about a wild-card, I wouldn’t trust him under that much pressure without having seen many pro hitters (1 IP at AAA) — if we’re going to hand the ball to someone, please don’t let it be an intern with BDE and no resume.
Just beat the Dodgers sans Kershaw, Bauer and May. Really makes you wonder if karma is a real thing.
Bauer and May were out basically all season, played less than Acuna and Ozuna if you want to just name drop players that didn’t have an impact on the series.
And Bauer? Really? The world would be better sans him… maybe Ozuna too?
“The world would be better sans him” So Bauer and Ozuna deserve to die now??? I’d be ok if teams decided they didn’t want the headache of having them associated with their organizations, but saying they should die is ridiculous.
Kinda’ think you forgot about Muncy. Look man, I’m just saying karma may actually be a real thing.
@Leftcoaster: I don’t think you understand the concept of karma.
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@leftcoaster
WTAF does karma have to do with Kershaw Bauer and May and the Braves? What, because we beat you and they were either injured or out by suspension? How in hell is that karma that Morton gets injured? Eat more fruitloops for breakfast, by the sound of it you are high on many packets already.
Absolute beast getting three more outs after the hit.
Yessir.
Charlie Morton can play on my squad any day, man.
Imagine if the Yanks had signed him with any of the three separate opportunities they had.
Your squad on mlb2k? Yea he rejects the offer
They’ll bring Webb back and throw a couple BP games.
Christ, not the first time something like this has happened.
can’t pitchers wear some kind of shin protection that won’t interfere with their mechanics?
It’s a freak injury.
Morton definitely leaving it all on the field
I would think that Kyle Wright starts game 4 now and that game 5 would be a bullpen game if needed. That would be the thing I would try
Game 5 (if needed) is Smyly if he’s not used in game 4. Both would be on short leashes.
The cheaters did something to his arm. Fired laser beams mounted on the head of sharks hidden in Crawford boxes
We will need to slug this entire series to take it. Now with Morton down we need the wiggle room.
I like Kyle Muller, but whether they’d give him a chance I do not know. 6’7 inches and a lefty as well.
If they don’t bring in Muller, maybe they bring in a bullpen arm, maybe it’s Rich Rod or Strider. I lean toward Muller or Strider, but let’s see..
Hate to see this for Charlie.
I expect them to bring in Touki for the pen. He’ll probably do the long work, if needed. That’ll free up Wright and/or Smyly to start.
This is a big blow, though.
@Appalachian_Outlaw
I don’t know why, I just can’t see them adding Touki based on his outings toward the end. Have you seen Brooks Wilson pitch? That guy has got some potential.
@other Fred. Tough seeing Charlie go down. Guy is a beast. Good thing is if it goes 7 games the Astros still have to win 4 out of the next 6. Every single Braves hitter got at least a hit in game 1. I still like the Braves odds. I agree with your replacement pitcher hopes and thanks for mentioning Brooks Wilson. I hadn’t even heard of the guy and he is already in AAA. Braves future is bright!
Four hours and six minutes for a 6 to 2 game? Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack. Ten more commercials and they might come back. Sell some more toilet paper MLB. Can we just play a damn baseball game? Sigh.
Talk about ballsy staying out there and finishing the inning. Braves fans must feel ecstatic right now. It almost feels like the team can’t lose! Even though I’m a Mets fan, it’s still good to see the Astros smacked around.
This Brave fan isn’t ecstatic. I’m happy the Braves won, of course, but Charlie breaking his leg is bad. You have to feel for a guy so committed to winning that he came back out to pitch, like he was a Jack Youngblood or something.
Yeah, I was surprised nobody else grabbed him in free agency. Guys been a stud for years pumping 97 last night. AA made some pretty slick moves getting this team where they are. Pitching on a broken leg, shades of Schilling’s bloody sock
didnt they move on him fairly early?
Why are dodgers fans still talking? You guys went home a few days ago
It’s therapeutic and less painful than watching the Rosario replay on loop.
Astros are now batting balls into opposing pitchers to injure them? The cheating never ends
Touki Tossaint to replace Morton, then Wright/Toussaint. Not Drew Smyly
Wright and Toussaint match up better against the Astros and are more suitable for the playoffs. Smyly should not be used except for mop up
I’m sure Braves fans everywhere are thrilled thaf you sit at home and watch the games and don’t actually make any decisions about what the team does.
If I was making the decisions, they’d not just get to the World Series, but they would win the World Series
And that’s the difference between the 1% and the 99%. The 1% know what wins
Like most, you’re another guy who doesn’t see what it takes to finish. And most GMs/Executives are also like you
So yeah, you’ll be in the majority of fans/GMs who don’t see how to win
Most of the time the problem is the top people who know what to do, have to battle all the hordes and hordes of average people like you and the others
Nearly every take I have is condemned by the mob. But that is precisely because it is the winning take. Most people are the “a99%” who fail
In other words, you’re part of the “confederacy of dunces” who are in league against the few people who do know what they’re doing
Ya I’m sure you have better skills then every manager in baseball. Go back to your PlayStation buddy
Confederacy? That would be Atlanta. No?
If you start Smyly, he’s going to get rocked by that Astros lineup. And that start will be in Houston. He’s got match up problems with that lineup
But if you bring in Wright and Toussaint for that start, you’ve got a much better chance
Why would Smyly’s start be in Houston? If he’s taking Charlie’s turn in the rotation, that would be Game 4 or Game 5, both of which are in Atlanta.
Next man up period. This team has faced adversity all year long. Morton going down is obviously huge but those arm’s down in the pen need to step in and produce. It’s the World Series everyone is tired or has some sort of ailment. Bottom line, it’s all hands on deck. Team needs to ALL pull that rope in the same direction. They can do it, been doing it all year long.
Time to get creative. Bring in Max Scherzer disguised as Morton and say the docs misread the X-Rays. If Scherzer wears a mask the whole time plus one brown contact in his blue eye no one will suspect a thing. Hey, if the Astros can be morally flexible, so can the Bravos. :p
Live and Play with a C.R.E.E.D mentality!
Crush Excuses Every Day. Heard it hear first. Go Braves!
I’ve been following this site for ~8 years, this is one of the weirdest comments sections I’ve ever seen hahaha.
And the legend of CFM in the post-season continues to grow!
Astros in 7
I’ll say it again, the Baseball G-ds for some reason love the Astros. That narrative needs to change. It begins with Anderson!
I also love the fact that there are Braves writers who are finally calling for lineup changes, particularly with moving Albies down. Guess for some people it takes a while to realize it needs to be done.
I saw this Braves team play the Phillies over the summer. Hard to believe it made the World Series, especially without Acuna. You have to give them credit for gutting it out. I still like them in 6 over the Astros. On paper they should probably lose in 5.
Make sure y’all wear red tonight. It’s already cold down here I can imagine at 8pm freezing! No matter though gonna freeze my butt off at Truist and scream my head off.
So much for the theory that this was a hairline fracture and that he could potentially pitch through it (foolish idea whoever posted that). I am surprised this required surgery to correct, however. I’m guessing they installed a plate & some screws? It seems a little excessive to me but I guess as you age, the bones don’t tend to grow back stronger than they were before like when you were a kid. If a plate was installed, they’ll have to remove it once he is done with his baseball career.
I wonder if Braves fans are still not sick of Albies hitting third and Duvall in the lineup?!
My man Anderson wasn’t sharp but pitched his best game this postseason.
Let’s GO!
Wright gem — Check
Duvall and Albies still terrible Check
Soler should start Check
3/3 for me )
Please Snit, for the love of the game, DROP DUVALL from the lineup! PLEASE!
MOVE ALBIES DOWN!
START SOLER!!