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- Updated: April 27, 2016
DENVER — Rockies left-hander Jorge De La Rosa gave up four runs and threw 73 pitches in three innings to grease the skids toward a 9-4 loss to the Pirates on Tuesday night, then left with a left groin injury after running to first base during a third-inning at-bat.
De La Rosa limped while running to the bag, and manager Walt Weiss said during an in-game interview with Root Sports Rocky Mountain that was when the lefty suffered the injury. But after the game, Weiss said he wasn’t sure if De La Rosa hadn’t been hurt earlier in the game.
“I don’t think [the groin] affected him before tonight’s game, but I don’t know if he did it running to first,” said Weiss, who said he will await a report from the team’s training staff before commenting on the extent of the injury. “He may have done it before that. He didn’t say anything. But after he ran down to first base, that’s the first time he mentioned it.”
De La Rosa, who was not available after the game, gave up consecutive homers to Andrew McCutchen and David Freese in the first, and another McCutchen homer in the second to fall behind, 4-0. He was down, 4-1, but had given up five …
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