Texas Rangers Josh Hamilton, who was MVP of the league last season, has broken his arm sliding headfirst into home plate and may be sidelined for two months.

While Hamilton, a Raleigh native, is hoping for a quick recovery but he reportedly won’t even swing a bat for at least a month.

On Tuesday, Hamilton tried to score from third on a foul popout with home plate momentarily uncovered. At the time Hamilton said, “It was a stupid play. The whole time the ball was in the air, the coach was yelling, ‘Go, there’s no one at home,’ and I was thinking, ‘I don’t want to do this, something is going to happen.’ “But I listened to my coach. It was way too aggressive. Maybe if they had both been closer to me, but they had a perfect angle to cut me off, and the only way to avoid a tag in that situation is to go head first.”

Today Hamilton backed off a bit and apologized to his third-base coach Dave Anderson. “I apologized to him for letting my emotions get out and getting ahead of myself and letting my emotions show through. I could have taken a better route as far as cooling down before I spoke. I see where I need to take responsibility for it. I appreciate Dave in having confidence in my ability that I could make that play. I was just frustrated moreso for getting injured.”