The Toronto Blue Jays had a lot to celebrate on Tuesday night. In the wild-card play-in game, they beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 in extra innings, they did it on an Edwin Encarnacion walk-off home run, and now they’re going to the ALDS. There were some intensely awesome moments, and that often leads to intensely awesome celebrations.

But sometimes the celebration gets too intense. This time, Russell Martin’s left pinky finger couldn’t survive the intensity.

Russ Martin split open the pinky finger on his left hand giving a high five after the game. Got stitched up. Says he's fine to play. — Arden Zwelling (@ArdenZwelling) October 5, 2016





How hard would you have to high five someone to injure the skin on one of your fingers? I’m imagining that both high-fivers would have to get a massive running start and then jump into the actual high five. In Martin’s case, he probably gave out many, many high fives that were all intense and excited and his poor pinky finger bore the brunt of it.

View photos There is a lot of high fiving going on during the Blue Jays’ walk-off celebration. (Getty Images) More

Imagine giving out high fives like this one over and over again for 30 minutes.

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Ouch. Thankfully, Martin doesn’t think his stitched-up pinky finger will stop him from playing. He said he’ll be good to go on Thursday when the Blue Jays face the Texas Rangers in Game 1 of the ALDS.

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