Both B.J. and Justin Upton Leave Games with Injuries

Remember those weird L. Ron Hubbard commercials back in the 80s?

You know, those commercials that would say a woman in Topeka, KS would have a sharp pain in her wrist and at the same time her sister in Sheboygan, WI would experience the same pain in her wrist.

Then you would hear some creepy music and then see a volcano explode and then you would hear “Read Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard.”

Of course at the time, I didn’t realize that was my first exposure into the world of Scientology.

Had I known that, I would have made my parents change the channel and put on something for sane human beings.

But I wonder if that commercial was still around would L. Ron Hubbard use the Upton brothers as an example for his book?

In a span of about an hour on Tuesday night, both brothers went down with an injury.

B.J. Upton hurt his ankle trying to field a ball in the top of the first inning in his game against the Detroit Tigers. He walked off the field under his own power, but it looked like he was in a world of pain.

He was diagnosed with a sprained ankle.

About an hour later, Justin Upton went down with an injury in Philadelphia. Upton exited his game in the fifth inning with tightness in his right hip.

Both injuries are day-to-day, but it’s a little creepy that the Uptons went down on the same night.

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