Ronald Acuña Jr. Faces Potential Achilles Injury: Latest Update

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00:00But now you take a look at Ronald Acuna Jr.

00:02There was a tweet yesterday from Mark Bauman who said Acuna held back tears as he talked after tonight's game.

00:07He said he'll be further evaluated likely with an MRI coming tomorrow.

00:11He felt discomfort when he scored from first on Monday.

00:14He lobbied to play today because in his mind he had missed too much time already this season.

00:18That is a devastating injury.

00:19The Braves are going nowhere.

00:21You tell me now that he was recovering from a knee injury, comes back as one of the better players in Major League Baseball,

00:26and has missed so much time already, and this could be an Achilles injury?

00:29And think of the worst, like even a partial tear of the Achilles?

00:32My goodness, man, what a horrible season for the Braves.

00:35Just from bad to worse, and just him too.

00:38I mean, this guy is losing years of his prime because he can't stay healthy in the most unbelievable of fashion.

00:45It's just, it's not great news for Atlanta.

00:50Now you've got to wonder whether or not Atlanta is looking at this over the next 24 hours and going,

00:54you know what, maybe it is time to hit the reset button

00:57and get rid of some of these bloated contracts and older guys that we have on this team.

01:01And we have to see.