Both Stephen Piscotty and Dexter Fowler left tonight’s Cardinals game with injuries, the team announced. Piscotty suffered a strained right hamstring while running out a grounder and came up lame after crossing the bag. Fowler, meanwhile, suffered his injury while diving for a ball in center field. The Cards have yet to make any announcements beyond the basic details, but Nate Latsch of MLB.com and AP Sports tweets that Tommy Pham was just pulled from the game with the Cardinals’ Triple-A affiliate, suggesting that he could be on his way to the Majors due to a DL stint for either Piscotty or Fowler.
Some more notable injury scenarios from around the game…
- MassLive.com’s Jen McCaffery writes that David Price threw 50 pitches in his second simulated game on Thursday. She adds that Red Sox president of baseball ops Dave Dombrowski said Price was working at 93 to 95 mph with his fastball, and he also utilized each of his other offerings during the workout. The lefty is set to throw another simulated game next Tuesday, after which Boston decision-makers will determine whether he requires one final sim game under club supervision or if he’s ready to embark on a minor league rehab assignment. Per McCaffery, Price could be ready to return to the Sox’ rotation in roughly a month’s time.
- Royals right-hander Ian Kennedy suffered a Grade 1 right medial hamstring strain in tonight’s game, per Rustin Dodd of the Kansas City Star. Kennedy could miss at least one start, and he’ll be reevaluated tomorrow in order to determine if a trip to the disabled list is needed. Manager Ned Yost declined to speculate on the possible outcomes, and Kennedy merely told reporters that the decision is up to Yost, the training staff and the front office. “And when it comes down to it tomorrow, I’ll tell them how I feel,” Kennedy said. “It doesn’t feel bad now. But we’ll see how it feels tomorrow.”
- Sean Manaea was scheduled to throw a bullpen session on Thursday but was instead limited to long toss due to some soreness in his ailing left shoulder, writes MLB.com’s Jane Lee. Manaea, who exited his most recent start after experiencing shoulder weakness and a sharp drop in velocity, won’t be activated from the DL when he’s first eligible, Lee notes. She also adds that when asked if Manaea was facing an extended absence, Athletics skipper Bob Melvin simply replied, “Could be.”
- Andy McCullough of the L.A. Times provides a pair of updates on some injured Dodgers (Twitter links). Second baseman Logan Forsythe was lifted from the most recent game on his rehab stint due to tightness in his hamstring and won’t be reinstated from the disabled list tomorrow, manager Dave Roberts told reporters. That could mean continued playing time at second base for the struggling Chase Utley, who is hitting just .104/.204/.125 through his first 54 plate appearances. Meanwhile, left-hander Scott Kazmir still needs at least another two weeks in extended Spring Training to build up his arm strength. That should push his timeline back at least into the month of June, even in a best-case scenario, as Kazmir would need further work on a minor league rehab assignment.
Utley is toast.
…..without butter.
They say they need him for clubhouse chemistry… good, pay him what he is owed for the rest of the year and keep him in the clubhouse by making him an assistant bench coach. Free up the roster. I love Chase but…
Make him a coach.
In ’98, the NYY did that with Dale Sveum. It ended up launching his coaching career…
I wish they did that with Uribe. But I agree entirely. Chase would be a fantastic coach especially by Roberts side. Some guys can’t let go of the game until they’re left with no choice.
Kazmir can take all the time he needs.
Price will be back when the weather gets warmer. So too will the Red Sox bats. Mediocre spring will turn into a hot summer for the entire Bosox team.
I thought it was birds, not bats, that flew south for the winter.
Only thing hot this summer for the Sox is the mustard Panda puts on his pretzels!
Another hot topic will be the unrest in the clubhouse with the prima Donna’s and no Papi to hold them together. Watching Farrell do the two step will remind all fans that their former catcher isn’t the only ex-MLBer that can go directly to Dancing with The Stars.
Do you actually watch baseball or just troll this site?
Your grammatical choices on “prima donna’s” are perplexing
I think it’s gotta be a given to keep Taylor and Bellinger in the bigs when injured players return.. Gonzo needs to hit the DL and get right. Utley DFA when Logan is ready to return..
So glad 2 outfields break in the same game.
fowler missed piscotty so much, he joined him in the trainers room
“NOW” is the time for Cardinals GM to trade for that star clean up hitter with Fowler and Piscoty out. He could hopefully keep the team a float until their return. It doesn’t hurt to shoot for the best!!! Go get Trout for whatever it takes. Make a package deal of players and cash for Trout and extra players! Who knows, they may even eat part of his salary and throw in Pujols. They’d get out from under Pujols massive contract for half and free up their money. Release Cardinals dead weight!! Quit hoping slightly above average players to play at a consistently above average MLB level. Revamp the team now instead of July as he is expected to do so.
Trout isn’t going anywhere, so cool your jets.
He may be. There’s a lot of chatter that the Angels aren’t going anywhere for years because of their payroll, current players contracts they are currently paying off after they are gone, depletion of their minor league system and aging players who are not worth the contracts they are signed to. Yes, the chatter is; The best player in baseball is stuck on a team that will never get to the play-offs. Should they perchance, they don’t have the pitching to survive. Should the Angles receive the right offer, the right amount of freeing up their payroll and shore up their minor league prospects, they have as much as said they would trade in the case stated. I’ve always liked the Angles, ever since Gene Autry was the owner. However, under this ownership, while meaning well, tried to buy a world championship years back by buying aging free agent superstars to go along with their own up and coming stars. Trout being one of them. Well planned, but it never worked and the Angels have paid for it since!! Yes, Trout can and should be traded. To build the Angels system up and current team. Plus, to let Trout, the best player in Baseball, enjoy what it feels like to play in a World Series!!!!
Even if trout was going somewhere, the cardinals do not have the type of players to pull off a trade for him.
Talk about wishful thinking..and they have never hinted about any trade and are on record.