Nick Ahmed, an American baseball player for  the Arizona Diamondbacks, exited the June 9 game against the Toronto Blue Jays with a left foot injury. The team’s training staff called it “an apparent bone contusion” but sprains are more common and more likely. Ahmed was injured when his foot slipped in the batter’s box during the third inning of the game, which the Diamondbacks won 8-2. No diagnostic tests were performed. Ahmed returned to play on June 11.

A sprain is a stretching or tearing of the tissue bands that connect bones together at joints. Most sprains heal within two to three weeks. Recommended treatment includes resting and applying ice to the sprain.