LOWE INJURY PAINS DODGERS PITCHER HIT BY LINE DRIVE IN DEFEAT ARIZONA 5, DODGERS 4.Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer PHOENIX - With their celebrated closer still sidelined and still not close to returning, with the rest of their bullpen clearly showing the effects of his absence and with one of those struggling relievers having finally cost them a game after several others were bailed out by offensive heroics in recent days, the Dodgers jetted home from a successful, season-opening road trip with the knowledge that things could be worse. In the bottom of the fifth inning of Sunday's game, a 5-4 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks This article is about the baseball team. For other uses, see Diamondback. The Arizona Diamondbacks (also referred to as the D-backs) are a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the West Division of the National League. in front of 29,796 at Bank One Ballpark, they got a frightening glimpse of just how much worse. Veteran right-hander Derek Lowe Derek Christopher Lowe[1] (born June 1, 1973 in Dearborn, Michigan)[2] is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He throws and bats right-handed. , who signed a four-year, $36 million contract with the club this winter after helping the Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox are a member and currently champions of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. From to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. win last year's World Series, was hit in the right arm by a line drive off the bat of Diamondbacks second baseman second baseman n. Baseball The infielder who is positioned near and to the first-base side of second base. Noun 1. second baseman - (baseball) the person who plays second base second sacker Craig Counsell Craig John Counsell (born August 21, 1970 in South Bend, Indiana) is a Major League Baseball infielder who plays for the Milwaukee Brewers. He has also played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies, Florida Marlins, and Los Angeles Dodgers. . Lowe made no attempt to hide the fact he was in severe pain, immediately grabbing his right arm with his left and thrashing around the infield until assistant trainer Matt Wilson finally ushered him into the dugout and up the clubhouse runway. Lowe was taken to the Arizona clubhouse for X-rays, the results of which were examined by Diamondbacks team physician Dr. Michael Lee Michael Lee may refer to:
The bad news is that Lowe suffered a severely bruised triceps triceps, any muscle having three heads, or points of attachment, but especially the triceps brachii at the back of the upper arm. One head originates on the shoulder blade and two on the upper-arm bone, or humerus. tendon. He expects his arm to be extremely sore as he takes part in the Red Sox's world championship ring presentation at Fenway Park • • [ this afternoon while the rest of the Dodgers take a day off before Tuesday's home opener. The good news is that Lowe probably will not miss his scheduled start Friday night against San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . ``Right now, I don't think he'll miss a start,'' Dodgers trainer Stan Johnston said. Johnston added that these X-rays were more definitive than the ``floor scan'' done on left fielder Jayson Werth at the club's spring-training headquarters after Werth was hit by a pitch in a March 2 Grapefruit League game. Those X-rays showed no structural damage, but the ones taken the following day at a Vero Beach, Fla., hospital showed a tiny fracture in Werth's left wrist. Almost six weeks later, Werth still can't swing a bat. Lowe, however, is much more fortunate. ``I'm very lucky,'' he said. ``An inch down below, and it would have hit my elbow bone elbow bone n. See ulna. and probably broken it. It just comes with being a groundball pitcher. A lot of hitters try to drive the ball up the middle off me.'' Lowe's early exit prompted another heavy workload for the club's already-taxed bullpen, and this time, it caught up to the Dodgers. What also caught up to them was the fact they stranded 11 baserunners, six of them in scoring position, which is why Duaner Sanchez inherited a 4-4 tie when he came on to start the eighth inning instead of a comfortable lead. The Dodgers' Jason Repko hit his first career major-league homer with a two-run shot in the seventh to tie it. Facing the heart of the Arizona order, Sanchez went to 2-0 counts on Luis Gonzalez, who doubled on a 3-1 pitch; Troy Glaus, who grounded out; and Shawn Green, who ended up walking after catcher Jason Phillips ran into a fixed camera near the Arizona dugout and failed to catch Green's pop foul, which was within reach on the other side of the railing. Chad Tracy's single scored Gonzalez, who had taken third on a wild pitch, making it 5-4. Arizona's Brandon Lyon got Ricky Ledee to fly out to shallow center to end the game with the tying run on second base, and the Dodgers (4-2) fell into a first-place tie with San Francisco atop the National League West. The Dodgers bullpen now has a collective ERA of 6.30. But Sanchez (0-1) refused to blame that on the absence of Eric Gagne, who has a strained right elbow and is out at least another week. ``I don't think that's putting pressure on anybody,'' Sanchez said. ``We know he's going to be out a little while, but we still have to do our jobs. When we don't, we get what happened today.'' Tony Jackson,(818) 713-3675 tony.jackson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, 2 boxes Photo: Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe leans over in pain after being hit by a line drive by Craig Counsell. Roy Dabner/Associated Press Box: (1) GAME RECAP (2) HOW THE RUNS SCORED |
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