Tampa Bay Rays catcher Wilson Ramos had a rough night on Monday when he was struck in the head with a broken bat in a 5-0 home loss to the Baltimore Orioles.

Wilson Ramos news: Bat HitS RAMOS IN Head

In the fifth inning, Orioles shortstop Ruben Tejada swung at a fastball from Rays lefty Blake Snell and his batt shattered. The broken barrel soared over Tejada’s shoulder and hit Ramos on the top of his head, as well as home plate umpire Joe West’s mask.

The Venezuelan catcher — who was fortunately wearing a helmet — was immediately tended to by trainers at home plate and carried back into the dugout at Tropicana Field after bleeding and suffering a cut on his forehead.

Ramos was replaced by Jesus Sucre, and Tejada ended up grounding out as Baltimore maintained a 1-0 lead.

The Rays provided no update as to when Ramos could return to the lineup, although the catcher said following the game that he felt ok enough to play the next game on Tuesday if needed and if the doctors allowed hm to. If not, Ramos added, he would like to play again on Wednesday.

“The barrel of the bat just hit my helmet,” Ramos said. “The impact cut me. But the helmet was perfect, it never broke. I felt sore at the moment. … If the bat hadn’t cut me, I would have probably stayed in the game. There was a lot of blood in my hand. I told the trainers, ‘If it’s not big, I want to stay in the game.’ But they said it was bleeding a lot and they had to take me out of the game.”

Ramos had to receive six staples in his head due to the hit.

“He’s fine, other than the fact he has six staples in his head,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “He won’t play [Tuesday], or won’t start, I should say. But we’re confident he feels good. A little bit of a scare there. I think Wilson would have preferred to stay in the game, we just weren’t able to prevent him from bleeding.”

The Rays face the Orioles again on Tuesday night in the second game of a three-game series in Tampa.

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 26: Wilson Ramos #40 of the Washington Nationals lies in pain after slipping on play at the plate in the fifth inning during a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Nationals Park on September 26, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

The Washington Nationals’ pursuit of the team’s first World Series Championship was just delivered a major blow.

Nationals’ Wilson Ramos Out For Season With Torn ACL

Wilson Ramos will miss the rest of the season with a torn right ACL, manager Dusty Baker announced Tuesday.

The catcher injured himself during Monday’s 14-4 home loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ramos awkwardly landed on his right knee while attempting to catch an errant throw. Upon landing, he fell to the ground and began clutching his knee, and was eventually helped off the field by team trainers.

“There’s never an opportune time,” Baker said. “This was the most inopportune time for this to happen.”

The 29-year-old Venezuelan was having a very great season, batting .307 with 22 home runs and 80 RBI and had a .850 on-base plus slugging percentage over 131 games. Ramos suffered the same injury to the right knee in 2012. He is meeting with doctors to schedule a date for surgery.

Washington will now turn to Jose Lobaton and Pedro Severino as they close out the season and prepare for the playoffs.

“We’ll really miss his offense,” Baker said of Ramos. “I told him: ‘Hey man, you and Daniel Murphy, particularly you two guys carried us to this point. Now it’s up to some of the other guys to take us to the next level and then the next level after that.”

The Nationals currently hold the second-best record in the National League. Ramos is set to become a free agent after the season and could demand a big payday.

Washington has suffered several other injuries recently. Outfielder Bryce Harper is nursing an injured thumb, second baseman Murphy has a gluteral strain, and right-handed pitcher Stephen Strasburg has been out indefinitely with a right forearm strain.

Harper has denied reports that he’s injured, although that would explain why the reigning NL MVP has put up lackluster numbers this season.

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 26: Wilson Ramos #40 of the Washington Nationals lies in pain after slipping on play at the plate in the fifth inning during a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Nationals Park on September 26, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

The Nationals have now clinched the National League East, and are attempting to both stay healthy and maintain home field advantage for their NL Division Series matchup with the Dodgers.

Wilson Ramos Injures Knee In Nationals’ Ugly, 14-4 Loss To Diamondbacks

Nevertheless, Washington lost yet another player in Monday’s brutal 14-4 home loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks. All-Star catcher Wilson Ramos, left the game in the sixth inning with a right knee injury.

Ramos injured the knee after he jumped for a sailing relay throw home from first baseman Ryan Zimmerman and landed awkwardly on his right leg shortly after the game resumed following a 20-minute rain delay. Nationals trainer Paul Lessard tended to the 29-year-old catcher. He walked off slowly with assistance on each side, not putting any weight on his right leg.

Nationals manager Dusty Baker didn’t comment much on the injury, saying only that Ramos “doesn’t look too good tonight,” and adding that the catcher will undergo on Tuesday.

“I feel badly because you know how we all feel about Wilson,” Baker said. “But it’s part of the game. You hate [for] it to happen this late, right before the playoffs, but our next step is try to figure out a way to play without Wilson. I’ve been mixing and matching this year and most of my life. Therefore it’s another obstacle and I just got to try to go back to the drawing board and figure out something.”

Ramos was kidnapped in his native Venezuela in 2011 before injuries riddled his first five full years in the majors, and the catcher dedicated this season, perhaps his best yet, to his grandfather, who died in late April.

Ramos’ injury follows a long list of injuries on Washington’s roster: ace Stephen Strasburg (elbow), MVP candidate Daniel Murphy (buttocks) and reigning MVP Bryce Harper (thumb). Max Scherzer is the only one of the Nationals’ five all-stars not dealing with an injury.

Yasmany Tomas led scoring for the D-backs, driving in five runs on a three-run homer and a two-run double, as Arizona drove Washington right-hander Tanner Roark from the game after four innings.

Jean Segura drove a long solo homer over the right-center-field wall to tie the game at 1 in the top of the fourth, and went back-to-back with Jake Lamb in the eighth off righty Lucas Giolito as part of the D-backs’ five-homer night. Mitch Haniger also homered for Arizona.

“It’s always nice to put up runs like that,” Lamb said. “Every inning for the most part we had good ABs so it was nice.”

Roark was due to hit with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the fourth inning, but Baker chose to replace him with pinch-hitter Chris Heisey. 

That decision initially backfired, as Arizona righty Archie Bradley struck out Heisey looking, but Brian Goodwin worked a walk after falling behind 0-2 to plate a run and Trea Turner followed with a two-run double– one of his three hits–to cut the D-backs’ lead to 5-4.

Washington’s lead over Los Angeles for home-field advantage in the NLDS fell to one game.

Bradley then walked Jayson Werth to load the bases, although Washington was unable to score again. Randall Delgado struck Anthony Rendon out to escape the jam and begin the D-backs bullpen’s four-man scoreless effort over the final 5 1/3 innings.

Yusmeiro Petit, who relieved Roark in the fifth inning, gave up five runs, four earned, over 1 1/3 innings and Giolito allowed four more, including back-to-back homers over the last two frames.

The two teams will next face off again for the second game of their four-game series at Nationals Park on Tuesday night. Arizona right-hander Matt Koch will make his first Major League start. Koch replaces Zack Greinke, who was been bothered by a stiff shoulder. Righty Max Scherzer (18-7, 2.82 ERA) will take the mound for the Nationals. Scherzer, who was selected in the first round by the D-backs in 2006, is 3-0 with a 2.57 ERA against his former team.

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 26: Wilson Ramos #40 of the Washington Nationals lies in pain after slipping on play at the plate in the fifth inning during a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Nationals Park on September 26, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)