SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chicago Cubs right-hander Jameson Taillon was positioned on the 15-day injured record Wednesday due to a left groin damage that supervisor Craig Counsell would not consider will preserve him down for lengthy.
The transfer is retroactive to Monday, a day after Taillon exited having thrown simply 62 pitches however went 5 innings for the win in opposition to the Angels in Anaheim. He was throwing a bullpen session Wednesday at Oracle Park and solely 12-14 pitches in when he did not really feel fairly proper, Counsell mentioned.
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“It went fairly properly however I believe we’re ready the place we’ll be protected right here and to skip a begin will most likely be a great factor,” Counsell mentioned. “I believe it is simply good. He is bought a little bit one thing occurring an and we do not wish to push it. There’s a little bit one thing there that we expect will resolve itself in 5 to seven days.”
Given Taillon’s proper calf pressure that sidelined him in late June, the Cubs aren’t taking an opportunity with him. Proper-hander Javier Assad was recalled from Triple-A Iowa and he’s set to start out Saturday at Colorado.
That is the most recent blow for what has been a beat-up rotation.
The 33-year-old Taillon is 9-6 with a 4.15 ERA over 19 begins this yr spanning 106 1/3 innings.
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Chicago additionally stays hopeful right-hander Michael Soroka will make an impression in the course of the September playoff push with the membership chasing Milwaukee within the NL Central. Soroka, acquired from Washington on the commerce deadline, made only one begin for the Cubs — tossing two innings in opposition to the Reds on Aug. 4 — earlier than straining his pitching shoulder. He threw off a mound in San Francisco on Tuesday as he works his means again.
The Cubs have nonetheless by some means hung in there.
“Look, we have pitched properly,” Counsell mentioned. “We have pitched very properly out of the beginning rotation, no query about it. All people’s liable for that. 5 guys have taken a fairly equal flip in that, and it is made us a constant baseball crew.”
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