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Coghlan will ice the knee for two days before a decision is made on whether surgery is needed.
“They have to make a call on whether he’s going to have surgery or avoid surgery. He’s going to be at least two or three weeks,” Rodriguez said of Coghlan.
If Coghlan has surgery, he could be out six to eight weeks, not returning until mid-September at the earliest.
“It happened as I was going to pie Wes (Helms) in the face and when I jumped I landed on my knee wrong. That’s how I hurt it,” Coghlan said.
“Hopefully through this experience, obviously Kendry Morales’ was a little bit more serious than mine, but hopefully players around the league will realize that even though were all excited just to be a little bit more cautious, a little bit more safe when we celebrate. It was one of those freak things that happen.”
Coghlan has never been on the disabled list. But he knew something was wrong less than a minute after it happened.
“It took me 30, 45 seconds. I was like, ‘OK, something happened.’ Iced it after the game. Took that flight out there, which was real rough on my knee because of that elevation, flying seven hours, it was more swollen, the doc said, than it might’ve been.”
Coghlan’s injury was a reminder of Angels slugger Kendry Morales, who broke his leg in May in a post-game celebration.
“My initial reaction is you just can’t believe it,” said Helms. “Then once it all sinks in, you hate to see anybody get hurt but you want them if they do get hurt to get hurt on the playing field to get hurt on the playing field.
“To do it that way, it’s one of those freak things and you take it a little harder. I know he does and do as a team that it had to happen that way, on a celebration. I don’t think it has sunk in yet on everybody.
“I didn’t know (intitally). I got pie-ed in the face finished the interview and came in (to the clubhouse) and nothing happened. Then I saw him last night icing on the plane and figured his knee was sore from where he got hit (by a pitch) the other night.
“Today I got to the field and they said he’s getting an MRI then I found out what happened.”
Wes agrees with the pie-celebration ban.
“Celebrations are fun. You hate for this to be the cancellation of the celebration but you can’t take celebrations too far. Each time you celebrate it seems like it gets more and more exciting and guys get more and more into it,” Helms said.
“Any time you go after a guy like that and chase him down, it’s very dangerous. It really is. Anybody can get stepped on. You can turn an ankle. This year with Morales and now Coghlan it has maybe opened up not just to us but to the whole league that hey on these celebration we need to be careful and keep these guys in the lineup and not on the DL.”
“They have to make a call on whether he’s going to have surgery or avoid surgery. He’s going to be at least two or three weeks,” Rodriguez said of Coghlan.
If Coghlan has surgery, he could be out six to eight weeks, not returning until mid-September at the earliest.
“It happened as I was going to pie Wes (Helms) in the face and when I jumped I landed on my knee wrong. That’s how I hurt it,” Coghlan said.
“Hopefully through this experience, obviously Kendry Morales’ was a little bit more serious than mine, but hopefully players around the league will realize that even though were all excited just to be a little bit more cautious, a little bit more safe when we celebrate. It was one of those freak things that happen.”
Coghlan has never been on the disabled list. But he knew something was wrong less than a minute after it happened.
“It took me 30, 45 seconds. I was like, ‘OK, something happened.’ Iced it after the game. Took that flight out there, which was real rough on my knee because of that elevation, flying seven hours, it was more swollen, the doc said, than it might’ve been.”
Coghlan’s injury was a reminder of Angels slugger Kendry Morales, who broke his leg in May in a post-game celebration.
“My initial reaction is you just can’t believe it,” said Helms. “Then once it all sinks in, you hate to see anybody get hurt but you want them if they do get hurt to get hurt on the playing field to get hurt on the playing field.
“To do it that way, it’s one of those freak things and you take it a little harder. I know he does and do as a team that it had to happen that way, on a celebration. I don’t think it has sunk in yet on everybody.
“I didn’t know (intitally). I got pie-ed in the face finished the interview and came in (to the clubhouse) and nothing happened. Then I saw him last night icing on the plane and figured his knee was sore from where he got hit (by a pitch) the other night.
“Today I got to the field and they said he’s getting an MRI then I found out what happened.”
Wes agrees with the pie-celebration ban.
“Celebrations are fun. You hate for this to be the cancellation of the celebration but you can’t take celebrations too far. Each time you celebrate it seems like it gets more and more exciting and guys get more and more into it,” Helms said.
“Any time you go after a guy like that and chase him down, it’s very dangerous. It really is. Anybody can get stepped on. You can turn an ankle. This year with Morales and now Coghlan it has maybe opened up not just to us but to the whole league that hey on these celebration we need to be careful and keep these guys in the lineup and not on the DL.”
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