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Gray pulled from start with right forearm injury
- Updated: August 7, 2016
OAKLAND — Sonny Gray lost his career-high 11th game of the year, his ERA sits at 5.74 and the A’s fell to a season-high 14 games below .500. But none of that was the biggest news that came out of Oakland’s 4-0 loss to the Cubs on Saturday at the Coliseum.
Gray left his start after five innings with a sore extensor muscle in the top of his right forearm, cutting short a promising outing after 72 pitches. Gray is unsure whether he’ll make his next start, saying he hopes to learn more Sunday, but he said he hasn’t felt pain in his forearm prior to Saturday.
A’s manager Bob Melvin said the team hopes the injury is minor.
“We decided to shut it down [after five innings] instead of risking anything else,” Gray said. “I lobbied to go back out there, but it just seemed like it obviously wasn’t going to happen.”
Gray first felt discomfort in the fourth inning, and again in the fifth after throwing a curveball to Dexter Fowler. He finished the inning, retiring the last seven batters he faced, but the team noticed the issue during the Fowler at-bat.
Gray was on the disabled list from May 22 to June 5 with a strained right trapezius, and he was 2-5 with a 5.57 ERA in 11 starts since then entering Saturday. He struggled in July, allowing seven runs in …
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