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Ruben Tejada suffers broken leg during NLDS

LOS ANGELES (AP) — New York Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada broke his right leg when a takeout slide by the Los Angeles Dodgers' Chase Utley's flipped the shortstop in the seventh inning of Game 2 of the NL Division Series on Saturday night. had arrived at second base high, hard and late, just as Tejada was arriving, turned, tangled and vulnerable. They collided. Tejada spilled backward and did not get up. Utley skittered past the bag and, ruled to be out by second base umpire Chris Guccione, dashed away to the dugout.