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Roger Mooney covers the Tampa Bay Rays for The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and News Channel 8. He has covered the Rays since their first season in 1998, including 11 years for the Bradenton Herald. Roger has also covered Florida, South Florida and Florida State football, the Bucs and the Lightning.

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Upton relieved in wake of ankle injury

Posted Sep 3, 2009 by Marc Lancaster

Updated Sep 3, 2009 at 11:22 PM

It could have been worse, and it certainly looked—and apparently felt—worse than it ended up being.

B.J. Upton was scared when he hit the warning track turf in the fifth inning, having rolled his left ankle hard as he came down.

“Definitely,” he said. “Definitely in a lot of pain, didn’t know what was going on. But once it cooled off a little bit I was able to get up and walk off by myself. That definitely made it feel a lot better.”

Manager Joe Maddon, like everyone else who saw Upton’s initial reaction, feared the worst as well.

“The way he was writhing on the ground I was really concerned about it,” Maddon said, “and I’ve got like 500 feet to run and I’m not really used to that.”

Once X-rays came back negative, though, everyone could exhale.

“To this point, the news is pretty good,” Maddon said.

Upton was still moving around gingerly following a postgame shower but said he should be good to go after the couple of days off Maddon plans to give him.

“The moment I feel better and that I’m able to play, I’m back out there,” Upton said. “We’ll see how it goes the next couple days, see how it feels, and work from there.”