We've heard about players getting hurt while sneezing, while sleepwalking through a nightmare about spiders and
after kicking an iron bar stool. 

But we had never
heard of a pillow-lifting injury in baseball — that is, until Detroit Tigers' everyman Brandon
Inge reported  an overstuffed owie on Wednesday, earning a feather-paved (and probably overdue)
path to the injury list.

"It was the stupidest, most freakish thing," Inge
said Wednesday, explaining why he had just been placed on the 15-day DL with the pulled side muscle
(oblique) he suffered 3 1/2 weeks ago.

 

"I have a 3-year-old son who sleeps in the bed
with my wife and me," Inge said. "I was trying to push the pillow down behind his head (two nights
ago), and when I did ... I repopped (the strained muscle).

"You take swings in baseball, and
it's not as bad as pushing a pillow down."

Upon hearing this story, manager Jim Leyland said,
"That's a first."

 

It definitely is a first, but I think anyone who's getting up there
in age — like myself and Mr. Inge — can relate to feeling a little pain in the obliques or lower
back when doing random things.

Heck, while formatting this blog, I threw my back out three
different times. I'm guessing a few people probably did while reading it, too. It's a dangerous
world out there.