Diekman hits DL after cutting finger on beer mug

Jake Diekman's going to be changing up his beer-mug packing technique.

The Texas Rangers left-hander was placed on the disabled list Friday after sustaining a cut on his left index finger July 6. He suffered the injury thanks to a souvenir mug he bought at the landmark Boston bar Cheers during a recent road trip. Not realizing the mug was broken, Diekman went to get the mug from his luggage and cut his finger on some of the glass.

"Done that a thousand times and nothing happened," Diekman told Gerry Fraley of the Dallas Morning News. "This stinks."

Fortunately for Diekman, who's been one of the few effective relievers for the pitching-starved Rangers, his DL stint is retroactive to July 6, so he's expected to return next week when his team visits Kansas City.

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Perhaps the best news to come out of all of this, though, is that Diekman apparently didn't order himself a "Screaming Viking" during his visit to Cheers.