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Mussina joins Yankees' injured list

By JIM COUR, AP Sports Writer

August 30, 2005

 

SEATTLE (AP) -- Mike Mussina will miss at least one start because of slight inflammation on the inside of his pitching elbow, becoming the fifth and final member of the New York Yankees' original starting rotation to get hurt this year. Mussina allowed four runs and six hits in three-plus innings against Seattle on Monday night, failing to complete the fifth inning in consecutive starts for the first time since Sept. 12 and 19, 1996, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

 

The 36-year-old right-hander, 12-8 with a 4.34 ERA, had been bothered by the inflammation previously this season, Yankees manager Joe Torre said before Tuesday night's game against the Mariners. "It's not something that just cropped up this morning,'' Torre said. Torre said the Yankees planned to "shut down'' Mussina for three or four days to see if his elbow gets better. Mussina gave up eight runs in an inning against Toronto last week and was 1-2 with an 8.17 ERA in five August starts. Mussina confirmed that the elbow has bothered him this season.

 

"It has been messing with me on and off, but it hasn't bothered me to where I couldn't pitch,'' he said before Tuesday's game. Mussina said Torre and pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre thought "the last couple of games it has bothered me more than I was letting on.'' Obviously, I'd rather be pitching,'' he said. "I know I want to be out there. This is an important time of the season. But, I want it to go away and not be an issue, so maybe this is the best idea.'' Asked whether Mussina would miss only one start, Torre said, "We hope that's all he will.''

 

Aaron Small (5-0) might take Mussina's slot for Sunday's game at Oakland. Small allowed one hit in four scoreless innings as the Yankees rallied for a 7-4 win Monday. "That makes sense,'' Torre said. "But we'll see if there are other options.'' Mussina expects to miss only one game. "One game should be enough,'' he said. "At 36, and pitching as long as I have, you're not always going to be 100 percent.'' Randy Johnson has missed two starts this year because of a bad back, and Jaret Wright was sidelined from April 24 through Aug. 14 with an injured right shoulder. Kevin Brown was on the disabled list from April 3-17 and June 18-July 18 with an injured back, then went back on the DL on July 28. Carl Pavano hasn't pitched since June 27 because of a sore right shoulder.

 

Chien-Ming Wang, who joined the rotation early in the season because of the injuries, hasn't pitched since July 8 because of shoulder inflammation but is on a rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Columbus and could return in September. With Mussina out, the Yankees' rotation would include Johnson, Wright, Shawn Chacon, Al Leiter and Small.

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Mussina has always been a class guy, both in Baltimore and New York. He's been a quality work horse, chewing up alot of quality innings. He also keeps his mouth shut, does his job without controversy. I'm sorry to hear of his elbow problems. Although it may end up helping the Sox ( which is good ), I'd rather win by competition then by default ( injury ).
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This isn't serious; Moose will be back very soon and the time off can do nothing but help him (he's the one pitcher who hasn't gotten any of that this season.) Besides...the guy taking his place in the rotation (for whatever time) has produced for us all season.

 

Oh well...get well soon Moose!

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We won by default last year, but if we don't put some room between us soon, while they continue to struggle to find arms, then we're in big trouble. Especially since we face them soon.

I take serious exception to the statement: "we won by default last year". Please tell which decimated teams we beat ?

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Yeah, we definetly did not win by default last year. Did you watch baseball last season? If anything the yankees looked like they were going to beat us by default when they rocked schilling in Game 1 on his imploded ankle, we battled and won big and we beat three damn good and pretty healthy teams in the playoffs.
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You are a dick.

I'm a dick for hoping the Yankees do bad? I could understand you saying that if it was a life threatening injury but it's not. I'm sure when you heard Curt was hurt you wished him a speedy recovery right? Foulke too? Right you didn't, so shut the f*** up.

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so its ok if you rag on us about schilling and foulke getting hurt this year? i have even seen you said i hope they suck for the rest of the season. so your immature comment "you are a dick" is laughable

Find a post where I said that. I never said I hope they're hurt. I think that they have nothing for this year, that's my opinion but I'm not hoping injury on someone.

 

I'm a dick for hoping the Yankees do bad? I could understand you saying that if it was a life threatening injury but it's not. I'm sure when you heard Curt was hurt you wished him a speedy recovery right? Foulke too? Right you didn't, so shut the f*** up.

Funny, you didn't say "I HOPE THE YANKEES DO BAD" you said "I HOPE THIS INJURY LINGERS THE REST OF THE YEAR". Subtle difference? This is the definition of classless punk. It seems there are only two trains of thought for you to say that. One, you think the Yankees are a huge threat to Boston with Mussina. Or two, you have a personal vendetta against Mike Mussina. So either grow some balls and show some confidence in your team, or grow up and stop wishing harm on one of the classiest guys in the game.

 

 

I never said I wanted Schill and Foulke to be hurt, and I would never say "I hope this lingers the rest of the year". If you can't beat the best team we put out there, then what merit do you have? I have NEVER wished injury on a player, especially for selfish reasons like helping my team win.

 

I did want Schilling to get healthy, which is why I recommended that they should have kept him rehabbing to get back into the rotation in Triple A, instead of that stupid closer assignment.

 

 

If you are honestly relying on an injury to beat the Yankees this year, Boston must be much worse than their 2.5 game lead indicates.

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Hhahahahahhahaha... I feel kinda bad for the Yankees... they cant catch a single break.

It will just make winning that much sweeter. ;)

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lol oh jeeze...

 

The end of the article said that Wang might be coming back in Sept. That would make the Sept. rotation nothing to sneeze at: RJ, Moose, Wang, Wright, Chacon. Leiter said he would work from the BP, but I do not trust him to come into a game and throw strikes. Small will be a force out of the BP, and the late inning guys are great. All in all I don't think the Yankee pitching is in shambles.

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I'm not too worried about this. Consider the options. Mussina goes out there every 5th day and has no control, gives up a bunch of runs and burns the bullpen or you throw in a new starter who will give the yanks a chance. Plus Wang might be coming back in mid sept.

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