Trevor Story, Rockies Dodge Injury After Ninth-Inning Scare

Trevor Story and the Colorado Rockies seemingly dodged what could’ve been a disastrous bullet in the ninth inning of Sunday afternoon’s walk-off win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Leading off the ninth in a 7-7 tie, Story was hit with a 1-1 pitch by Arizona reliever Silvino Bracho on the middle finger of his right hand. Story walked down the third-base line in obvious discomfort as Colorado trainers and manager Walt Weiss came out of the dugout to see the issue.

After a few minutes, Story elected to stay in the game even though he was in pain and trotted to first. Two batters later, he would score the winning run on Mark Reynolds’ walk-off homer as the Rockies grabbed a 9-7 decision.

After the game, Weiss was obviously concerned about his rookie shortstop.

“He would not have stayed in (if the game had gone to extra innings),” Weiss said. “I’m not sure how he is yet. The kid is having an incredible season, a dream season. Just hoping and praying he’s alright.

“I just hope he doesn’t have a broken bone in that hand.”

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That was the prominent worry for Story, who emerged shortly and walked to his locker with good news for the Rockies.

“Everything’s OK. Just bruised really bad,” Story said. “I had an X-ray. It’s good. It’s hard to move a little bit. It’s real swollen. A lot of ice and we’ll wrap it up.

“I did that in the minor leagues too. Broke my pinkie. Had a little flashback there. Thank God it’s nothing serious.”

Story said he didn’t expect to miss any time but how the finger swells will determine if Story misses any of the upcoming series against the Toronto Blue Jays, which begins Monday night at Coors Field.

“I think the main concern is that it was the middle finger of my throwing hand so it would’ve been tough for me to throw the ball,” Story said when asked if he would’ve stayed in the game if Reynolds hadn’t hit the homer and the game would’ve gone into extra innings. “Whatever the situation was and whatever I would’ve had to have done, I would’ve done it.”

After being plunked, Story had to take extra care on the bases, especially when Bracho threw to first and made Story dive back to the bag.

“The last thing you want to do is jam it or do something else to it. I just held my (batting) glove in that hand so it was protecting it that way,” Story said.

The scary moment overshadowed what was a tremendous day for Trevor Story, who reached base four times, including two walks and his 19th homer of the season. He scored four of Colorado’s nine runs.

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“I feel good. I’m just trying to put together good at-bats and today I did that,” Story said. “(On the homer) First pitch was fastball. I just missed it. He came back with a slider and I was able to put a good swing on it and it went out.”