Slider, the team's fuzzy purple mascot, took a 2.5-meter tumble from the stands to the field as Cleveland's Carlos Baerga batted in the fifth inning of the American League playoffs on Saturday.
Slider -- the Indians would not disclose the name of the person in the suit -- tore the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his right knee and is out for the year.
The Seattle mascot, The Moose, was injured in the fourth game of the Mariners' divisional series with the New York Yankees when he collided with an outfield fence while rollerblading.
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