Former baseball star Jose Canseco was in surgery Tuesday night after accidentally shooting his own hand while cleaning his gun.

Canseco, 50, was reportedly cleaning his four licensed guns in his home in Las Vegas on Tuesday. His fiancee, model Leila Knight, said he had forgotten there was a bullet left in his Ruger pistol.

Knight said his middle finger was barely attached when she wrapped it and called an ambulance.

Canseco later tweeted: “Got no sleep. Hope I can keep my finger but grateful it wasn’t something worse.”

It is unclear whether he will undergo a second surgery.

Canseco is famous for a 1993 blooper play, in which he let up a home run when a baseball bounced off his head and flew over the fence.

He is also the co-author of a 2005 book about the pervasiveness of steroids in professional baseball.

----------------------------------------­---------------------

Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off.

For news that's fun and never boring, visit our channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TomoNewsUS

Subscribe to stay updated on all the top stories:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-WqkTyKK1_70U4bb4k4lQ?sub_confirmation=1

Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: https://us.tomonews.net
Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj
Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f

Stay connected with us here:
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS
Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS
Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/
Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus