Blue Jays’ Hill Insists Explanation for Absence Is No Web of Deceit

Glenallen Hill of the Toronto Blue Jays had a lot of explaining to do Saturday.

Hill missed Toronto’s 4-2 victory over Seattle because he injured himself Friday night trying to escape imaginary spiders in a nightmare.

“I have a phobia about spiders,” Hill said. “In the nightmare, I was trying to get away from spiders.”

Hill said he bounced off a wall and climbed up the 10 stairs in his apartment.

“When I woke up I was on a couch and my wife, Mika, was screaming, ‘Honey, wake up!’ ” he said.

Hill offered to bring reporters to his home to see the blood stains and marks on the walls.

Hill, who arrived at the SkyDome on crutches, was treated at a hospital and by the team’s trainer. He had cuts on his toes, elbows and carpet burns on his knees and will be sidelined indefinitely.