Each one of the 42,024 fans at Minute Maid Park could see Adam Everett was in excruciating pain after the shortstop's fourth-inning collision with left fielder Carlos Lee. None of them knew the severity of the injury.
One person who did was Lee, who had an up-close look ? or listen, as it were ? at the play, and knew immediately something awful had occurred.
The two Astros players were converging on a ball hit by Oakland's Jason Kendall, and as Lee crashed into a backpedaling Everett he heard a loud crack. It proved to be the sound of Everett's right leg snapping, an injury that could keep him out for as long as two months.
Astros Lose Everett To Broken Leg




