Everyone's favorite team for late-season comebacks, the Colorado Rockies, has suffered a setback to their 2009 postseason chances: today they announced that they have shut down their closer, Huston Street, due to biceps tendinitis in his pitching arm.
Rockies to Shut Down Closer Huston Street
Street said he first felt discomfort Tuesday night when he threw a six-pitch ninth inning against the New York Mets in his first action in a week. He brushed it off as the effects of a weeklong layoff.
He tested out his arm before the game and said it didn’t feel any worse. But he couldn’t get loose in the bullpen during Colorado’s eighth-inning rally, so left-hander Franklin Morales filled in and recorded his first major league save Wednesday night.
Street, who is 33-for-34 in save chances this season, says he’ll miss at least a few days, but not longer than a week.
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