Cardinals’ Jordan Walker Suffers Knee Injury In Completely Strange Fashion — And Unacceptable While We’re At It

How on earth does Major League Baseball let this happen?

St. Louis Cardinals right fielder Jordan Walker is being shut down for a week at minimum following the MLB star suffering an injury to his left knee after he … stepped on a sprinkler?

Yep. (RELATED: President Trump Making One Of Most Glorious Decisions In History Of Baseball — Posthumously Pardoning Pete Rose)

The ex-top prospect of the Cardinals had an MRI that didn’t show any structural damage, but his knee did show signs of irritation.

“It is what it is,” said Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol to the media Wednesday. “We’ll let it calm down for a week and then we’ll ramp that baby back up, and we’ll still have time to see him in plenty of [spring training] games.”

Things went down in the second inning during the spring training game Wednesday at Cacti Park between the Cardinals and Washington Nationals. Chasing down a fly ball, Walker ended up stepping on the head of a sprinkler, and in the process, his knee got twisted. He was taken out of the game afterwards.

WATCH:

Here is footage of the second-inning play where #STLCards RF Jordan Walker is believed to have experienced pain in his left knee while tracking a fly ball. Walker was removed from the game because of that pain and will undergo further evaluation, per the club. pic.twitter.com/2IqhwRvVig

— John Denton (@JohnDenton555) March 4, 2025

I get it’s spring training and the field isn’t an MLB-level field, but how is the maintenance of this particular field so bad to the point where a sprinkler is sticking out in the middle of a game? And players are getting hurt while we’re at it?

Make sure this NEVER happens again, MLB. What a terrible look.