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Wright isn’t concerned with weather affecting knuckleball
- Updated: July 31, 2016
ANAHEIM — Knuckleballer Steven Wright wants to clear something up about his last start, when he allowed a season-high eight runs over 4 2/3 innings against the Tigers.
“The weather didn’t affect me the last game,” said Wright. “The only time I ever felt like the weather affects me is rain, and then the one time in Texas — that’s the only time I felt like I had a tough time holding onto the ball.”
It will be humid and hot again on Sunday at Angel Stadium — perhaps close to 90 degrees — when Wright pitches the matinee finale of a four-game series against the Angels. He said not to worry.
Wright’s start against the Tigers, he said, was simply the case of having a bad night at the office.
“You’re going to have outings like that, where you don’t feel your best,” Wright said. “You try to do everything you can to survive. It stinks though when you’re a starting pitcher and get eight runs of support and you get a no-decision. That’s bad on my part, the fact that we got eight runs and I can’t get through the fifth inning. But that’s baseball. It just [stinks] that I’ve had like three of them like that in my last six starts.”
Manager John Farrell had discussed the possibility of Wright wearing long sleeves.
“To me, we talked about …
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