Wandy Rodriguez has been placed on the 15-Day disabled list with right knee inflammation.
Hurdle on the injury — “Wand is not sure how he hurt his knee. He had gone to the training room after his last start and complained of some right knee discomfort. They scheduled a MRI appointment for today. He saw a doctor and said he felt it a couple of times in his last start and didn’t think anything of it. They extracted a large volume of fluid from his knee today.”
Hurdle on a replacement for Wandy — “We’ve got a couple different guys in house. We’ll see who lines up, whose lined up. I’m not going to announce somebody today, but I think we’re in a good place, though. We’ll have a pitcher to take his spot. We’ve added [Jared] Hughes to the bullpen tonight.”
Rodriguez is 0-2 in four starts this season with a 7.65 ERA and 1.600 WHIP. In his last start on Saturday, he went four innings allowing 4 runs on 6 hits while striking out 3 and walking 1. He also gave up a home run.
The velocity on his fastball has been down by couple of MPH this season, but manager Clint Hurdle expresses that was due to his arm problems last season.
Keep posted to PSN for further updates on Rodriguez.
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