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Morneau’s Back Injury Ends His Season

The Minnesota Twins’ fading playoff aspirations took one more hit on Tuesday when it was revealed that All-Star 1st baseman Justin Morneau will miss the remainder of the season.

Morneau has been dealing with back pain for weeks, but a CT scan and an MRI on Monday confirmed that he has a stress fracture in his lower back.

The condition does not figure to require surgery. Physicians have informed Morneau to rest his back for the next 3 month|fall season.

Morneau wounded himself on a diving slide into first base on Friday and hasn’t played ever since.

Before last week’s injury, the slugging 1st baseman had previously been playing through tenderness off and on for a fair amount of time. Thus, his stats have declined greatly; Morneau was hitting just .077 in September to lower his season batting average to .274. Prior to this slump, he was batting over the .300 mark. Having gotten only 9 hits over a period of 22 games, it was apparent that something was wrong.

“You can play with the pain if you feel as if you’re helping the franchise or doing something to help your teammates out and victory baseball games,” Morneau insisted. “When you play and you don’t feel like you’re helping your team, that is when you kind of take a step back and say, ‘All right, perhaps I’m doing more damage than good.’ ”

Despite his struggles of late, Morneau finishes the ’09 season with 30 homers and one hundred runs batted in. The home run output is higher than his ’08 total of 23.

Michael Cuddyer should turn out to be the starting first baseman in Morneau’s absence.

In spite of the condition, Morneau happens to be upbeat about the Twins’ opportunities the rest of the way.

“Hopefully I’ll watch the boys embark on a run here and play cheerleader and that is about it,” Morneau claimed.

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