Torii Hunter leaves game with hamstring cramp, considered day to day

The Detroit Tigers started a crucial divisional series against the red-hot Kansas City Royals on Monday night. Unfortunately for them, they had one of their key veteran players leave the opening game early with a hamstring injury.

According to Jon Morosi of Fox Sports:

It doesn’t sound like anything too serious for the Tigers, though Hunter is getting his comeuppance a little for comments he recently made about another professional athlete who was dealing with cramps.

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You remember that time that LeBron James exited game one of the NBA Finals with cramps, right? It just so happens that Hunter was one of the so-called “haters” when that happened, and he cracked a joke about the situation to boot. While speaking with Jim Rome, Hunter said the following:

"“But I can tell you this. I made love to my wife the other night and I caught a cramp in my hamstring, and I actually put my leg out and kept performing.”"

This was a relatively harmless comment, of course, and awfully entertaining. But it still seems fitting that Hunter exited a game with cramps of his own within a month of making this wisecrack.

Hunter has struggled in the 2014 campaign thus far, batting .264/.289/.441. That hasn’t stopped him from having big opinions, though. It just so happens in this case that one of those opinions came around on him in a hilarious way.