One of the most beloved players of recent times not just in the Boston Red Sox, but of all MLB, Dustin Pedroia, Ended his career after several years battling a chronic injury to one of his knees, in which he had to have partial reconstructive surgery and to this day, he cannot run or play baseball, although if you can lead a normal life off the pitch.
After the news of his retirement, the media and fans in general remembered that sweep that gave him second baseman Manny Machado in 2017, when he was still playing for the Baltimore Orioles, which caused Pedroia he saw his season limited to only 105 games and underwent surgery at the end of this campaign.
However, the sweep that Machado nailed to Pedroia was simply “the drop that spilled the glass” for his knee, as at the end of the 2016 season, Pedroia underwent surgery on his meniscus. his left knee and a reconstruction of the cartilage of it.
Throughout 2017, Dustin suffered knee problems, going to the list of injured three times for the same cause, with the last and fatal caused by the sweep of Manny Machado, from which he could never recover, having tried to return for the next three seasons, to no avail.
Pedroia himself does not hold a grudge against Machado nor does he consider that the Dominican “ended his career”, as in his virtual press conference he mentioned that what happened to him, could happen to anyone and it was simply a baseball play that had bad consequences.