Masyn Winn found out in a very good way and a very difficult way on Wednesday that his St. Louis Cardinals teammates will always have his back.

Approximately an hour after plunking a pop up into shallow right field for the first walk-off hit of his MLB career – and getting mobbed by his teammates – Winn endured a scary situation when his BMW hydroplaned and smashed into a concrete barrier just a few miles away from rain-soaked Busch Stadium.

Luckily for the 24-year-old Winn, Cardinals’ pitcher Dustin May saw the wreck happen in his rear-view mirror and slugging third baseman Nolan Gorman also witnessed the accident while trailing Winn a few vehicles back. After pulling off the road, Gorman was the first to reach Winn and drove the Cardinals shortstop to a nearby emergency room because of fear of injuries after the smashed car’s airbag deployed, Winn told reporters in Detroit.

“I’m more sore from the game, playing 11 innings, than I was from the crash,” Winn told the Belleville News-Democrat. “Super thankful that I was able to walk away from that.”

Initially, however, Winn feared he had suffered a significant injury that would have knocked him off the baseball field for several weeks.

“At first, I thought I broke my thumb,” Winn said to the Belleville News-Democrat. “That’s what I was more upset about. I was like, ‘Man, I’m going to have to miss three or four weeks.’ And then we find out that everything’s all good.”

Winn was good enough to not only start, but also to hit leadoff on Friday in Detroit – the Cardinals first game of a six-game road trip to face the Tigers and Nationals. Winn was 1 for 3 before leaving the game in the seventh inning after being pinch-hit for by Nathan Church.

Winn, who won the first of what potentially could be several Gold Glove awards in 2025, is off to another slow start at the plate. Through seven games, he is hitting just .179 with an OPS of .483.

In addition to alerting Cardinals officials of Winn’s wreck on Wednesday, Gorman also alerted manager Oliver Marmol, who raced to the hospital to be by the side of his standout shortstop.

“I could care less about baseball at that point,” said Marmol, who was near his suburban St. Louis home when he got the call. “(Gorman) opened up with that (as the first thing – that (Winn) got in an accident – and I was like, ‘Gosh!’”

The Cardinals lost 4-0.

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