Rangers Brock Burke Broke His Hand Punching A Wall

There has been a lot of talk about pitchers getting injured and what factors could be leading to so many of them.

It's pretty safe to say what happened to Texas Rangers reliever Brock Burke, the ol' wall punch, has claimed another victim.

Burke entered Friday night's game against the Houston Astors in the bottom of the seventh inning with the Rangers up 12-3.

He got off to a nice start by striking out Jose Altuve, but then hit Yordan Alvarez and gave up a two-run homer to Kyle Tucker.

I think it's probably a safe bet that Burke didn't appreciate that bat flip, so maybe his blood was starting to boil at that point, and things didn't get a whole lot better. It was not the best inning of Burke's career and he wound up yielding 4 runs and registering only 2 outs, both of which were strikeouts.

He was not happy about this and, according to Yahoo Sports, Burke punched a wall out of frustration.

I feel like a lot of us have been there. It happens. You get angry and you throw hands with a wall. If you're lucky, it's a wall with brittle drywall and you're not worse for wear. If you're unlucky, you fracture your hand and wind up on the 15-day IL.

Brock Burke was unlucky when it came to wall punching and wound up fracturing his non-throwing hand. In Burke's case, that'd be his right one.

Manager Bruce Bochy said that he had a talk with Burke about maintaining a hold on his emotions and not lashing out and breaking his hand.

"Obviously he regrets it. Sometimes you don't have time to think about what the consequences may be," Bochy said. "You're just that upset and that frustrated. That's the passion to do well [and] hate to lose. It's not the first time I've seen it."

But at least he had the presence of mind to not use his pitching hand. 

As upset as Burke clearly was, the Rangers wound up winning Friday night's game 12-8, however, they lost Saturday's game 9-2.