There was no easy way around anything in the Buster Posey injury aftermath Thursday, just as there was no easy way around Posey in the milli-moment before impact the previous night.
Two paths diverged on the road to home plate, and Scott Cousins took the one more violent.The result: Cousins barreled into Posey and scored, Posey suffered a fractured bone in his left leg and torn ligaments in his ankle, and the entire Giants organization reeled in consequence.
Posey's status for the rest of this season is highly questionable. So is everything about the Giants' World Series title defense.
"Right now, we're just trying to get over the shock here a little bit," manager Bruce Bochy said before the Giants' dispiriting 1-0 loss to Florida on Thursday.
The hot-button issue: Was Cousins' crash course a dirty play or merely a terrible accident?
Several Giants players re-enacted the collision with each other in the clubhouse before Thursday's game, trying to make sense of the fateful moment and figure out their proper emotions.
But the reality is that, while avoidable, Cousins' split-second decision to charge into Posey was understandable, legal and absolutely a part of the way the game has been played for decades.
A victory was on the line. Posey lined up on the first-base side of the plate but was moving left to get closer to Cousins' path.
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