Chicago White Sox’s José Abreu reflects on his dash to the plate, the injury that sidelined him and playing his 1,000th career game: ‘I’m just grateful’

“I started feeling the pain on the airplane, that Sunday,” Abreu said. “We got to the hotel and I couldn’t walk. I told the trainers and we went to the ER in Minnesota. They did all the tests and fortunately it wasn’t anything serious. Just inflammation. From Monday on, working with the great treatment from the trainers, from that day, my goal was to start playing (Friday).”