Astros' Jose Altuve gets hit by pitch during World Baseball Classic: 'It didn't look good'

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Houston Astros star Jose Altuve left Saturday night’s World Baseball Classic game after he took a pitch to the hand and the team fears he possibly broke his thumb.

Altuve, who was playing for Venezuela, suffered the injury in the 9-7 loss to the United States. Daniel Bard threw the pitch that hit Altuve in the fifth inning. The sinker was clocked at 95.9 mph.

"The Astros will provide an update tomorrow after further evaluation," the club said in a statement.

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Venezuela's Jose Altuve is helped up by a trainer after he was hit by a pitch during the fifth inning of a World Baseball Classic game against the U.S., Saturday, March 18, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

A Houston athletic trainer told The Associated Press there was fear Altuve may have broken his right thumb. Altuve told reporters in Spanish after the game, "All is good."

"It didn't look good," Venezuela manager Omar Lopez said. "It took 10 seconds for Tomas Vera, my trainer, to get him out of the game. I said, `Oh, my God.' We'll see what happens. I started to pray right away for Jose, for the entire team. That was our momentum right here when we took the lead. And at some point, the whole dugout kind of died, like quiet, and we kind of pushed everybody to get up and move on."

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Venezuela's Jose Altuve is hit by a pitch during the fifth inning of a World Baseball Classic game against the U.S., Saturday, March 18, 2023, in Miami.  (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Lopez is the Astros’ first base coach.

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