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Hill scratched to guard against blister flareup
- Updated: September 1, 2016
DENVER — Rich Hill was scratched from his scheduled start in the second game of Wednesday night’s doubleheader against the Rockies and replaced by Bud Norris.
Manager Dave Roberts said the club decided not to risk further injury to Hill’s left middle finger, which has been plagued for two months by two blisters. Scheduled to start Tuesday night, Hill made a 41-pitch warmup before that game was rained out, and management did not want to risk inflaming the healing skin by asking him to throw back-to-back days.
“To come back in 24 hours, the Rockies did it with Tyler Anderson, but the risk versus reward for us, for Rich, with the blister it’s a whole different situation,” said Roberts. “As adamant as Rich was to pitch, we’re going to skip …
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