Kendry Morales is carted off the field after ingloriously breaking his left leg while celebrating a walk-off homer with his teammates on Saturday. Kendry Morales is carted off the field after ingloriously breaking his left leg while celebrating a walk-off homer with his teammates on Saturday. (Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press)

Kendry Morales challenged the term "walk-off home run" Saturday, when his game-winning slam celebration ended with him being carried off on a stretcher in an air cast.

The Los Angeles first baseman will require surgery after breaking his left leg as he leaped into a mob of teammates after their dramatic win over the Seattle Mariners.

It also inspired us to revisit 10 of the more bizarre injuries to professional athletes.

1. Bill Gramatica

In just his first season in the NFL, Gramatica nearly jumped his way out of the league by tearing the anterior cruciate ligament of his non-kicking right knee while celebrating a first-quarter field goal as the placekicker for the Arizona Cardinals in 2001.

After his 42-yard attempt split the uprights, the 23-year-old leaped into the air in jubilation and landed awkwardly on his knee. Gramatica would go on to play just 21 games over the next three seasons before finding himself permanently on the sidelines.

2. Tomas Vokoun

Vokoun learned the hard way about "keeping your head" after allowing a first period goal to Ilya Kovalchuk in an NHL regular-season game earlier this year. The Florida Panthers goalie was victim to one of the more violent-looking accidental injuries, when teammate Keith Ballard opened up the side of Vokoun's head with a two-handed swing of his hockey stick intended for the goal post.

Vokoun left the game on a stretcher and needed several stitches to close the gash over his ear.

3. Marty Cordova

Unfortunately for baseball players, eye black doesn't help much in a tanning bed. Just ask Marty Cordova. The Baltimore Orioles outfielder was forced to miss a game in 2002 after burning his face while at a tanning salon and was told by doctors to stay out of sunlight while he recovered.

4. John Smoltz

The future Hall of Fame flamethrower is better known for ironing out command issues rather than his clothes — and for good reason. Smoltz once admitted to burning his chest ironing a shirt — while he was wearing it.

5. Gus Frerotte

Luckily for the former NFL quarterback, Frerotte may not remember his ill-advised celebration during the 1997 season as a member of the Washington Redskins. Frerotte suffered a concussion and sprained neck by head-butting a padded wall in the end zone after scoring a touchdown in a game against the New York Giants.

6. Santiago Canizares

Although Canizares's bizarre injury kept the Spanish goalkeeper on the sidelines for the 2002 World Cup, at least he looked good doing so. Slated to be the team's starting keeper, Canizares needed surgery after dropping a bottle of aftershave on his right foot while shaving, severing a tendon just a few weeks before the start of the soccer tournament. Spain would go on to lose in the quarter-finals to South Korea.

7. Tony Allen

Before winning a championship with the Boston Celtics, Tony Allen's career was in serious jeopardy. In a 2007 game versus the Indiana Pacers, the Celtics swingman tore leg ligaments on an attempted dunk after the whistle had blown, forcing him to miss the final 3½ months of the season.

8. Plaxico Burress

Burress shot himself through the ranks (and his leg) as one of the dumbest athletes in sports when his unlicensed gun went off in his pants at a New York nightclub in 2008. Burress had been deemed "unfit to play" that week due to an injury on the same leg. The former wide receiver remains in prison, where he was sentenced to spend two years, and was dumped by the Giants a few months after the incident.

9. Evander Holyfield

The second Evander Holyfield-Mike Tyson fight in 1997 remains among the most infamous moments in sports history. Tyson was disqualified from the highly anticipated rematch following his inexplicable rage in which he bit off pieces from both of Holyfield's ears.

10. Glen Davis

Just prior to the start of the 2009-2010 NBA season, Boston Celtic forward Glen Davis apparently felt the need to live up to his nickname "Big Baby." Davis broke his right thumb and missed the first two months of the season after allegedly fighting with his best friend in a moving SUV.