※ [本文轉錄自 MLB 看板 #1CAai-uy ] 作者: subcrew02 ( 南 ) 看板: MLB 標題: [情報] Zumaya out for season with fractured elbow 時間: Wed Jun 30 03:36:27 2010 Tigers reliever left game against Twins in obvious pain MINNEAPOLIS -- Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya will miss the rest of the season with what the team called a non-displaced fracture of the olecranon, a bone at the tip of his right elbow. An MRI exam and X-rays taken at a local hospital revealed the injury, which he suffered on an eighth-inning pitch Monday night against the Twins at Target Field. Zumaya grabbed at his elbow and eventually collapsed in pain behind the mound before the Tigers athletic training staff helped him off the field. It'll mean a fourth straight injury-shortened season for Zumaya, whose struggles to come back and regain his form as baseball's hardest-throwing reliever have been going on since he was a rookie sensation in the Tigers' run to the American League pennant in 2006. A 99 mph fastball to Delmon Young in the eighth inning of the Tigers' 7-5 win over the Twins sent Zumaya clutching his right elbow and shaking his hand. Suddenly, as if the pain suddenly hit him, he knelt to the ground in apparent agony. Head athletic trainer Kevin Rand rushed to the mound, followed by manager Jim Leyland, to attend to Zumaya, who had tears in his eyes. And for several minutes, one of baseball's most intimidating men was helpless on the ground as trainers tried to get him in as comfortable a position as possible to take off the field and into the training room. Zumaya eventually walked off the field on his own power, clutching his arm against his body with help from Rand and assistant athletic trainer Steve Carter. "It just breaks your heart," manager Jim Leyland said after the game. "I'm sick. I'm sick to my stomach. It's just the grind of the game. Like I've said forever, every pitcher that's ever pitched a game is one pitch away from his last one." Leyland didn't want to assume a worst-case scenario, but most everyone who saw the injury feared a season-ending injury at the least. "I feel terrible," said Jeremy Bonderman, a teammate of Zumaya since 2006. "I've been through rehab, and I know what he's been through. It definitely looks like he's headed down the path of rehab. It's a bad scene, man. You feel for the guy, and you just hope he comes back to be the guy he used to be." Zumaya was enjoying what was setting up to be his first healthy season since 2006, when he was one of baseball's best rookie relievers and overpowered the American League with his 100 mph fastball to become one of baseball's best setup men. A series of injuries have derailed his career ascension since. Zumaya missed about half the 2007 season after dislocating his right middle finger while warming up in the bullpen at Kansas City. He made it back for the stretch run of a playoff race, but suffered a more severe injury when he dislocated the AC joint in his shoulder that October in an accident at his family's home in San Diego. Zumaya pitched in just 21 games in 2008 before being shut down with a stress fracture in his throwing shoulder. After consulting with noted orthopedic specialist Dr. James Andrews, he rehabbed without surgery and made it back for 29 games last year before a bone shard in the same shoulder forced him to undergo surgery after all. Zumaya pitched in 62 games as a rookie in 2006. He hadn't pitched in 30 games in a season since then until he pitched Saturday at Atlanta. Monday night was his 31st of the season. If there's any good news out of the diagnosis, it's that Zumaya didn't suffer any ligament tears. That will likely prove little consolation for the 25-year-old, entered the night with a 2-1 record and 2.63 ERA, having struck out 34 batters over 37 2/3 innings. http://tinyurl.com/35pww74 --

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