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Gio Gonzalez Exits With Shoulder Tightness

By Connor Byrne | July 26, 2019 at 10:34pm CDT

10:34pm: Gonzalez may have avoided a serious injury. Manager Craig Counsell said after the game, which the Brewers came back to win, that Gonzalez is day-to-day and could make his next start (via Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).

10:03pm: The Brewers announced that left-hander Gio Gonzalez exited his start against the Cubs on Friday with shoulder tightness. That’s a potentially ominous development for a Milwaukee club already down two starters, Brandon Woodruff and Jhoulys Chacin, because of injuries.

The 33-year-old Gonzalez only just returned from his own IL stint. Thanks to a dead arm, Gonzalez went from May 27 until July 20 without taking the ball at the major league level. During the eight starts Gonzalez has made this year, including his 6 1/3-inning, two-run performance against the Cubs, he has recorded an effective 3.48 ERA/3.30 FIP with 7.84 K/9, 2.61 BB/9 and a 42.8 percent groundball rate over 41 1/3 innings.

The Brewers couldn’t have realistically expected the type of results they’ve received from Gonzalez on a per-inning basis when they signed him in late April. That came after an odd several months for Gonzalez, who – despite years of quality work with the Athletics and Nationals – was unable to find a guaranteed contract in the offseason. Gonzalez instead settled for a minor league deal with the Yankees toward the end of March, ultimately opting out of it to take a better opportunity in Milwaukee.

As of this writing, the Brewers are trailing the Cubs, 2-1, in the eighth inning of the NL Central rivals’ hugely important matchup. First-place Chicago entered this weekend’s three-game set with a two-game lead over Milwaukee, which is 1 1/2 back of wild-card position. General manager David Stearns suggested earlier this week the loss of Woodruff’s unlikely to affect the Brewers’ plans heading into the July 31 trade deadline. However, the team appeared as if it needed starting help even before Woodruff suffered an oblique strain that will keep him out several weeks, and that will become all the more obvious if it sees Gonzalez join him and Chacin on the shelf.

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  1. dray16

    6 years ago

    Still probably the best rotation in the NL

    Reply
    • DarkSide830

      6 years ago

      yeah…try bottom half

      Reply
    • ncaachampillini

      6 years ago

      Sarcasm dripping. Love it.

      Reply
    • afsooner02

      6 years ago

      You don’t have to post this on every brewers post to troll

      Reply
    • brewcrew08

      6 years ago

      Afsooner02 he’s got nothing better to do with his life. Don’t judge him….did I get the sarcasm down?

      Reply
      • 2id

        6 years ago

        Seriously. If you have to troll this hard on an internet message board you may have to re-evaluate your pathetic life and try to make healthy contact with a woman. An organic woman.

        Reply
  2. steelerbravenation

    6 years ago

    Feel Wheeler will be going to the Brewers
    Don’t know the return but that’s my hunch

    Reply
    • DarkSide830

      6 years ago

      Wilmer flores isnt in New York anymore. it would have to be a three-team trade with Arizona.

      Reply
      • MrMet62

        6 years ago

        Too bad Wilmer isn’t with Mets now. Actually it’s a crying shame.

        Reply
  3. walterfranciswhite

    6 years ago

    So out of the blue, really, without a history of injuries

    Reply
    • DarkSide830

      6 years ago

      everybody breaks down eventually. sometimes its a snowball effect of injuries.

      Reply
  4. todd76

    6 years ago

    Red Sox crushed the Yankees again tonight.

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  5. stubby66

    6 years ago

    They are going to atleast figure to bring up one starter if not 2 from the minors .Gotta believe they make one trade this weekend. Just please dont bring the same guys up that havent done anything. Try Derby as one of them. I also see for Brewer fans that Supak and Williams got brought up to AAA. today. Plus they said today that Shaw will be playing mostly only first from here on. Kinda interesting.

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    • Matt Galvin

      6 years ago

      Stroman? Noah? Degrom? Aaron Sanchez? Madbum?

      Reply
  6. lannonrich

    6 years ago

    Boyd to brewers or rays

    Reply
  7. lannonrich

    6 years ago

    Both lost some pitching and need more to compete for division or wild card

    Reply
  8. lannonrich

    6 years ago

    Both need starting pitching help

    Reply
  9. robluca21

    6 years ago

    Been cool if the yanks just kept him and or signed Corbin or kuechel.

    Wouldn’t have had to trade for a starter. But whatever

    Reply
  10. jvent

    6 years ago

    Sound’s to me like a couple of teams are getting desperate for a starting pitcher but you have to give up to get my Mets lol

    Reply
  11. juan gonzalez

    6 years ago

    Man after so many bad years these brewers need at some point to win a championship. The brewers have a deep line up but they havent addressed the starting pitching, that cost them last season it’s going to cost them again if they dont go out and acquire a top of the rotation starter.

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