Game Fifty Open Thread: 30 May 2007: injury backup rally

His complete game log is here.

In that 74-pitch outing, he lasted 2 2/3 IP vs. the Athletics, allowing 7 hits, two of them homers, five runs (4 earned). He walked 1 and struck out three, collecting 4 flyball outs to 1 gb out.

His longest outing was April 30th, when he went 3 hitless innings on 29 pitches—1 strikeout, no walks, 6:2 G:F. It would be super-duper if he could do that again for twice as many innings.

Totally super-duper.

gotta love the Onion.

Duncan
Spiezio
Eckstein

are all injured or sick, and according to Rockies announcers, unavailible tonight.

That means on the bench we have Esposito (backup catcher won't hit) and Ludwick.

So tell me, future boy, what would you call roster spots that can't be used in the game?

Biff Tannen

I love the total lack of sourcing on such ratings.  Are they just eyeballing it?

Repeat after me.

Wellemeyer isn't THAT bad.  He is making some boneheaded mistakes but he does seem to minimize damage well.

It's the same logic used to anoint Ortiz as god of clutch.

Dave thinks that is a-ok.

Too bad that won't happen.

So he better start every day.

Except against lefties, of course.

Think Willie Mays Hayes.

Reyes is the Cooler for this team's offense, apparently.

http://www.schrutebuck.com/

(i was rooting for a double to give him a legit chance at the cycle).

Let's hope so.

i mean, i'm sorta speechless, if that's number one on the list.

much liter note, great win tonight. shocked wellemeyer didn't crap his own bed. did Dave work him magic again? don't know. only saw a few batters. MV3 finally put together a good game. we all needed that badly. still, it's only one game. don't get too high about this. don't get too low. see if they can put together a few more like it in a row. then it will be time to get excited.

I had severe bursitis issues starting in my senior year in high school and then all through college.  Mine was caused by repetitive stress on the kneecap from driving into the mat while wrestling; I'd have between 50 and 80 (ml/cc/whatever the units were) of nasty pink fluid drained every other week or so.  The dude who drained them (same guy who did my ears) thought it was hilarious.  I still have problems if I try to run too far or spend the day scrubbing my bathroom or something, though the swelling does go down by itself after a week or so if you stay off it.

The swelling itself is really weird because the knees don't actually hurt when swollen, other than a kind of annoying achiness, kind of like shin splints; the swelling mostly made them numb, and then when the fluid is drained it feels like the leg is asleep for about an inch above and 2 inches below the bottom of each kneecap.  I never needed anesthetic.  The only time it really hurt was right after getting a cortisone(?) shot, but I can only remember that happening a couple of times.  I'd be unable to run or even ride a bike for a day or two after one of those, but it would stop the swelling for a long time.

As far as "additional injury" goes, the numbness is what you really have to watch out for (at least that's what the therapists and doctors told me).  The bursitis itself was just an annoyance as long as it didn't break the sac, which was "pretty much impossible to do" according to my doctor, but the numbness could lead to a different injury in the same way that a twisted ankle can cause a torn hamstring or a broken ankle if you favor that leg while running.  

If he actually broke his bursae sac then that is something way beyond what I had, but i beat the crap out of mine while swollen up and never had that happen so I doubt it is the case.  if it is, he'll probably be out a while, if it's not he should be in the lineup by the weekend imho.