That Balls Outta Here » achilles http://thatballsouttahere.com A Philadelphia Phillies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sat, 25 May 2013 19:51:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Ryan Howard to Begin Fun Journey to Ruptured Achilles Recovery http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/10/11/ryan-howard-to-begin-fun-journey-to-ruptured-achilles-recovery/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/10/11/ryan-howard-to-begin-fun-journey-to-ruptured-achilles-recovery/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:30:24 +0000 Justin Klugh http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=7172 In Game One of the NLDS, Ryan Howard started an 11-run roasting of Jaime Garcia that set the tone for the series and made everybody who wasn’t us feel terrible about themselves.  Then suddenly it was Game Five and Ryan Howard was turning the bottom of the ninth inning into that scene from Hostel.

Instead of letting your focus land on those celebrating Cardinals and how satisfying it would be to throw a boot at each and every one of them, consider the crumpled mess of a first baseman lying in the base path. (more…)

]]> http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/10/11/ryan-howard-to-begin-fun-journey-to-ruptured-achilles-recovery/feed/ 0 Ryan Howard Receiving Shot to Make Him Even More Powerful http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/09/19/ryan-howard-receiving-shot-to-make-him-even-more-powerful/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/09/19/ryan-howard-receiving-shot-to-make-him-even-more-powerful/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:30:36 +0000 Justin Klugh http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=6964 “Even more powerful” in this case meaning “back to normal levels of power.”

They say the Achilles is the Achilles of the human body.  There’s a reason you shouldn’t be shot in it with an arrow.  Yes; that lesson can be applied to most body parts, but no others have been so historically documented as the Achilles.   (more…)

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