State College Spikes shortstop Andy Vasquez missed Thursday night's game against Auburn with what manager Gary Robinson described as a foot problem, and outfielder Jose Hernandez had to leave the game in the ninth inning after an apparent ankle injury.
Robinson discovered the problem with Vasquez earlier in the day and kept him out of the starting lineup. Brock Holt played shortstop while Ty Summerlin played second base.
"It's either a shin splint or something going on with his foot," Robinson said of Vasquez' injury. "I don't know the whole story, but he worked out today with a limp. We were very careful what we did with
him, so we did not play him tonight."
Hernandez, the team leader in batting average entering tonight, started in left field and batted in the No. 2 spot in the lineup usually filled by Vasquez. Hernandez was on the ground at home plate after his at bat ended in an out and needed to be helped off the field. Robinson did not know the extent of Hernandez' injury.
"I think that his spikes got caught, and he kind of rolled his, his foot kind of rolled into the very outside bone," Robinson said. "Jose said that it felt like something snapped or cracked. I don't know what the prognosis is, I know that he will be in a boot, he's gonna go home in a boot tonight and we'll get x-rays and we'll get him to the orthopedic people and see what's up with that."
