After the Boston Red Sox announced Brock Holt was placed on the injured list with a scratched cornea, many wondered how he sustained the injury.
It’s certainly not a typical injury and not one many baseball players face. But Holt revealed to reporters ahead of Boston’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday the incident occurred Opening Day.
But it wasn’t Holt who scratched his eye.
Brock Holt is on the IL because his son Griff poked him in the eye the morning of Opening Day. Holt said Griff likes to tell everyone about it. Tried playing through it but said he can’t see spin and wasn’t helping the team being out there.
— Jason Mastrodonato (@JMastrodonato) April 6, 2019
Well, at least Griff is owning up to it.
The Red Sox currently are in a bit of a rut, so losing Holt certainly isn’t ideal. But at least it doesn’t seem to be serious and now Griff can look back on this and tell people he sidelined his All-Star, World Series champion dad in the 2019 season.
