Most of the time, baseball is a wonderful part of our lives. It’s the friend who’s always there, and the most welcome of distractions as we make our way through this....tumultuous (sure, we’ll go with that) time. Sometimes, though, it has a tendency to rip our hearts out with little to no mercy and exactly no warning. That was the case on Friday for fans of many teams, as it seemed like the day consisted of a nonstop barrage of injuries to some of the more prominent pitchers in the game.
Friday was filled with pitcher injuries
Saturday morning’s Say Hey, Baseball includes a rash of notable pitcher injuries, the Mariners being good, and Anthony Bourdain’s relationship with baseball
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The first, the most painful for us, and perhaps the most serious of all of these pitcher injuries came to Shohei Ohtani. The Angels two-way superstar had been dealing with some known blister problems for a few weeks now, but the diagnosis changed. Apparently, he felt some stiffness in his elbow while he was recovering from the blister, so the Angels got that checked out. He was diagnosed with a tear in his UCL and while no decisions have been made he’ll wait three weeks to be evaluated. Life is stupid. What’s the lesson here? Never go to the doctor, because then they can’t tell you what’s wrong with you and you’ll live forever. (Note: Don’t do that.)
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Ohtani will, and should, get the most headlines among the injured pitchers, but he wasn’t the only prominent All-Star to go down. Over on the other coast in New York, a couple of the city’s best arms suffered injuries. In Queens, the Mets announced that Noah Syndergaard would not make his scheduled start on Sunday. Across town, playing against the Mets in Queens, the Yankees’ Masahiro Tanaka hurt himself running the bases and left the game with injuries to both hamstrings. Universal DH now. Down south in Washington, Stephen Strasburg left after just two innings with shoulder discomfort, and he’ll head for an MRI. Finally, all the way back out west young budding star Walker Buehler left his start early with rib soreness. Got all that? Never pitch, kids.
- It’s been 17 years since the Mariners made the postseason, but they might.....be good? enough to do it again in 2018.
- The Pirates fell to the Cubs on Friday and you can almost entirely blame Ian Happ and his three great diving catches.
- The world learned some tough news on Friday morning with the passing of Anthony Bourdain. It was far from the biggest impact on this world, but Jay Jaffe has a look at Bourdain’s relationship with baseball.
- Ben Lindbergh says it’s time to introduce the DH into National Leaguebaseball. Preach!
- Are you a baseball fan? Yes? Good. When players make errors it’s time to realize it’s not a reflection on anything about them personally.
- The theme of this post has been pitcher injuries, so obviously the Orioles had to be mentioned here somewhere.
- If the Mets continue to struggle, they have a big question facing them about the next step for their franchise.
- The Nationals, meanwhile, got some good news for their lineup as Adam Eaton could be back very, very soon.
- Earlier in the week the Royals had perhaps the best position of all teams in the draft. With it, they went extremely heavy on pitching.
- Good news for A’s fans: Matt Olson is back to hitting dingers every time you look.
- By now we all know about Jordan Hicks’ velocity, and now he’s harnessing his slider. It’s like when Happy Gilmore learned how to putt.
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