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Baseball Musings
September 13, 2006
Liriano Returns

Francisco Liriano shows no sign of injury in the first inning, retiring the Athletics in order on nine pitches, striking out one.

Update: Two innings, 22 pitches, 17 strikesouts, six up and six down for Liriano. Haren also retired the side in order in the first. He threw 17 pitches, 12 for strikes.

Update: Liriano injures himself on a pitch to Bobby Kielty. According to the radio broadcast, it looks like his arm. He bounced a pitch, and the announcers thought he caught a spike. He's out of the game. A big blow for the Twins.

Update: Liriano threw the pitch, fell off the mound, then came up with his arm hanging. With luck my Tivo caught it and I'll watch it when I get home.

Update: Garza takes over with Nick Swisher at first.

Update: The radio reports that Liriano is suffering from left elbow pain.

Update: I just watched it via Tivo. He didn't fall off the mound. When he completed the delivery, it's obvious that he hurt his arm as he jerks it up like he felt pain. That left the end of his motion unbalanced, but he didn't fall. It was immediately obvious to Redmond and Castillo that he was hurt, as they made their way out to the mound to check him. What was clear is that whatever happened to his arm, it hurt enough to throw off his delivery and send him out of balance.


Posted by David Pinto at 01:17 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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Wow! I just turned on the game and Liriano's walking off the mound after a pitch. I feel bad for him and the Twins.

Posted by: Basura at September 13, 2006 01:44 PM

Oof. The Twins had a lot of mo' going for them. They got greedy.

But yes, Garza is bailing them out big time.

Posted by: Matt Sussman at September 13, 2006 02:26 PM
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