CLEVELAND, June 14 -- Jose Ramirez did not want to leave. He had felt something give in his left hand leading off the fifth inning, and his first instinct was not the trainer's room but his glove. He grabbed it, told his manager he might still be able to play defense, and then tried to close his fingers around the leather and could not.

That was the moment the Guardians' summer turned. The hand would not work, and a player who has been on the injured list exactly once in his career was headed there for the second time. The diagnosis came back a fractured hamate bone, the same small wrist bone he broke in his right hand in 2019, and surgery is expected within days, the Associated Press reported.

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