TORONTO (AP) — Add Blue Jays right-hander Aaron Sanchez to the list of big leaguers to suffer suitcase-related injuries this season.Sanchez
acknowledged Wednesday that the bruised right index finger that has sidelined
him for the past two months occurred when his finger got caught in a falling
suitcase. The incident happened June 21
Alex Smith Jersey Elite , hours before Sanchez took the mound in Los Angeles against the Angels with about 180 friends and family from his hometown of
Barstow, California, in the crowd.“It got stuck in my suitcase and it started
falling,” Sanchez said. “It all happened in a span of about 30 seconds. I said
‘Ow,’ and my knuckle got super fat. I pitched that day, probably didn’t help,
but it was the first time I was going to pitch in front of my family as a
professional and I wanted to see what I could do.”The 2016 AL ERA champion,
Sanchez allowed two runs and two hits in a 25-pitch first inning that night
before being replaced. After making three minor league rehab starts, he will
throw a side session Thursday in Toronto. If that goes well, Sanchez will be
activated off the 60-day disabled list to start against Philadelphia on
Saturday.Sanchez (3-5, 3.52) said part of the reason he stayed quiet about his
injury was the attention Kansas City catcher Salvador Perez received for
spraining the medial collateral ligament in his left knee while carrying a
suitcase up the stairs in his home just before opening day. Perez did not return
until April 24.“I didn’t want to say it then because I saw Salvador Perez go
down with the same injury and I didn’t want to get laughed at,” Sanchez
said.This isn’t Sanchez’s first struggle with an injury to his pitching hand. He
endured multiple stints on the disabled list because of blister and fingernail
issues last season
http://www.washingtonredskinsteamonline.com/alex-smith-jersey , pitching just 36 innings over eight starts. PHOENIX (AP) — Up six runs and
trying to end their longest losing streak since late June-early July, Arizona
Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo wanted to make sure a win was in the bag.So
Lovullo, after starter Robbie Ray pitched 6 1-3 scoreless innings, had his top
two setup man work an inning each to close out the San Diego Padres 6-0 Tuesday
night.“It didn’t make a lot of sense, I know it was 6-0,” Lovullo said. “We
needed to win this game, and those are the guys that have been doing it all year
long, and I just felt the importance of winning right now.”Ray struck out 10 and
pitched two-hit ball as the Diamondbacks ended a four-game losing streak.The
Diamondbacks’ skid had knocked them out of the NL West lead.Ray (5-2) got his
first win at Chase Field since March 30, his first game of 2018 — he’d been 0-1
in his previous six starts at home. He won back-to-back starts for the first
time since last September and is 5-0 in his last eight starts against the
Padres.“It was huge to come out today and get the win,” Ray said. “My fastball
command was about as good as it’s been all year.“It just feels effortless. Every
pitch has a purpose,” Ray added.Joey Lucchesi (7-8) gave up two runs and three
hits in five innings. He’s winless in five career starts against Arizona.Nick
Ahmed hit an RBI triple and scored on Ketel Marte’s sacrifice fly for a 2-0 lead
in the second.“I left one fastball in the middle for Ahmed, which allowed the
triple
Authentic Matt Ioannidis Jersey ,” Lucchesi said. “After that I told myself calm down. I made an adjustment and kept it to two runs the rest of the
game.”Ray hasn’t been consistently sharp this season, but he cruised through the
first four innings without allowing a runner and striking out seven. Ray got
help from a diving catch in center field by A.J. Pollock, which took a hit away
from Luis Urias.The Padres got their first hit of the game, a single from
Franmil Reyes, with two outs in the fifth. They had runners on the corners in
the sixth with two outs, but Ray struck out Hunter Renfroe to end the
inning.Marte manufactured a run on his own after infield single in the
Diamondbacks’ four-run seventh. Reliever Robert Stock threw wildly on a pickoff
attempt to allow Marte to get to second base, and Marte stole third. He scored
on a passed ball, and pinch-hitter Daniel Descalso had an RBI single.“It was
nice to push across some more runs and put the game away,” Descalso said. “To
bounce back the way we did, very clean game, pitched the ball well, hit the ball
well.”The Diamondbacks got another run when Padres catcher Austin Hedges
couldn’t hold on to the ball after tagging Descalso trying to score on Pollock’s
sharp single. Paul Goldschmidt added an RBI single.ISSUE WITH UMPPadres manager
Andy Green came out of the dugout to discuss the call at home involving Descalso
and Hedges
Matt Ioannidis Jersey Elite , who was charged with a missed catch error. But before he could ask for a replay review, he was told time had run out on him
to do so.The manager felt third base umpire Angel Hernandez, the crew chief,
didn’t make a good effort to approach Green to see if he wanted a review.“The
way that works is you signal within 10 seconds, around 30 seconds someone is
supposed to walk to your dugout and say ‘We need a decision,” Green said. “Makes
no sense on any level but he is offering me some sort of opportunity to hear his
voice when music is being played and he is yelling at me across the field. That
is not the way it’s supposed to work. I am just looking for a little
professionalism and to me that was not that.”DIAMONDBACKS MOVESThe Diamondbacks
recalled INF Ildemaro Vargas from Triple-A Reno and RH reliever Matt Andriese
from Single-A Visalia before Tuesday’s game. Andriese had been with the
Diamondbacks until Aug. 28 after he was picked up in a trade with Tampa Bay. …
Starting pitcher Zack Godley, who worked in Monday’s game, was placed on the
paternity list to return home for the birth of his first child.MEJIA DEBUTSThe
Padres called up catcher Francisco Mejia from Triple-A El Paso before Tuesday’s
game. Mejia, considered one of San Diego’s top prospects, struck out as
pinch-hitter in his San Diego debut.UP NEXTPadres: The Padres get Wednesday off.
Then LHP Eric Lauer (5-7) faces the Cincinnati in the first game of a four-game
series.Diamondbacks: After a day off Wednesday, RHP Zack Greinke (13-9) opens a
four-game series against Atlanta on Thursday.
