Fox mentioned he had meals poisoning, and positioned the blame on his Saturday night time dinner — a steak with macaroni and cheese and creamed spinach from an undisclosed restaurant.
Fox’s abdomen didn’t really feel nice when he awoke on Sunday morning, however he ignored it and went to the park. He tried to eat breakfast within the clubhouse, didn’t have the urge for food and, after consuming a couple of eggs, threw them away.
He advised himself he would eat later and proceeded along with his regular game day routine — a mixture of fielding, bunting and hitting. But the nearer it crept to game time, the extra his abdomen began to cramp.
Fox looped in a coach about quarter-hour earlier than first pitch and drank some Pepto-Bismol. But the coach warned Fox that he in all probability must throw up at some level; the 2 hoped Fox can be within the dugout when it occurred.
“As I’m stretching, I could feel my body — it’s not me,” Fox mentioned. “I feel weird. I’m playing catch with [shortstop Alcides] Escobar and we’re playing and I’m not even reaching him [in the air].”
Fox mentioned he by no means needs to return out of a game, so he tried to dam out the sensation of uneasiness. But when the crew ran onto the sector, his abdomen saved cramping — and on his ultimate warm-up throw, he bent down.
By the second pitch of the game, Fox knew he was in hassle.
“I’m like, ‘Aw, man, please don’t tell me it’s what I think it is,’ ” he mentioned to himself. “So in my head I’m like, ‘Do I call time?’ I’ve never been in this position before. I know I can’t wait for three outs.”
After two pitches, he known as for a timeout and went by way of two choices in his head: run to the guests’ dugout, which was nearer, or run throughout the sector to the Nationals’ dugout. Fox selected the latter however couldn’t make it. He can nonetheless hear, and laughs about, the gang’s response when he performs again the second in his head.
“I was like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe that just happened,’ ” Fox mentioned.
Fox was nonetheless recovering early this week. As just lately as Monday morning, he was nonetheless cramping, however was he’s beginning to really feel like himself Tuesday. Because he hadn’t been capable of eat, he has misplaced some weight and was working to get himself again to the place he was.
Some buddies and family members checked in on him — and as soon as they knew he was okay, they laughed, too. He mentioned he loved a number of the social media posts on the second, although he didn’t look at too a lot of them. Fox noticed some tweets suggesting he may need drank an excessive amount of the night time earlier than, and shut that down instantly.
“It just shows that this is my competitive spirit,” Fox mentioned, “and I just want to do anything I can do to help my team win.”