[外電] Dodgers pitcher Jon Garland likely to start season on th
Dodgers pitcher Jon Garland likely to start season on the disabled list
By Bill Shaikin
The right-hander strains an oblique muscle on his left side during a game
Wednesday. Such injuries usually require at least a month of recovery.
The Dodgers built this season's team upon a foundation of starting pitching,
but the foundation appears in danger of crumbling before the team breaks camp.
Jon Garland is expected to start the season on the disabled list after
leaving Wednesday's game because of a strained oblique muscle on his left
side. The Dodgers sent him for an MRI examination late Wednesday and plan to
announce the results Thursday, but such injuries generally require a month or
more of recovery.
The Dodgers already have lost Vicente Padilla for at least the first month of
the season after surgery to repair a nerve below his right elbow, leaving
them with four healthy starters for now. Manager Don Mattingly said the
Dodgers would not need a fifth starter until April 12, two weeks into the
season.
General Manager Ned Colletti declined to discuss the situation until the
Dodgers could get Garland's test results, but the top candidates for a
rotation vacancy would figure to be John Ely and Tim Redding, who have
combined for 15 scoreless innings this spring.
Ely posted a 1.80 earned-run average in his first six starts last season and
an 11.01 ERA in his last six starts. Redding has pitched for five major
league teams but was released from two triple-A clubs last season.
Garland, 31, has pitched at least 190 innings in each of the last nine years.
He has not been put on the disabled list since 2000, when he sat out two
weeks because of a bruised right elbow.
He said he never has had an oblique injury. He clutched his left side after
delivering a pitch in the second inning of Wednesday's game.
"It honestly felt like it was cramping up," Garland said. "Standing here
doing nothing, it feels fine. If I were to pick up a baseball and throw it, I
guess it wouldn't feel good."
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