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- Updated: August 16, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — Deep breath. The Dodgers won’t lose another starting pitcher. Brett Anderson can move his wrist.
“My arm feels good,” Anderson said. “So I’m gonna throw a bullpen here tomorrow, the next day, and go from there.”
From there, for Anderson, means making his next scheduled start. Manager Dave Roberts slotted him into the rotation for Saturday’s game against the Reds in Cincinnati.
Anderson made his first start this season for Los Angeles on Sunday after undergoing back surgery in March. But the debut got cut far short when Anderson injured his wrist diving for a comebacker off the bat of Adam Frazier. He stayed in to record the final out of the inning, but his wrist stiffened in the dugout and, like that, Anderson’s first Major League start of the season lasted just one inning.
He allowed enough runs and hits in that inning to last a full start or two, though. The Pirates plated five on five hits, including two home runs, off Anderson in the single frame.
“There’s a silver lining in that I was on a big league mound and it had been a long time,” Anderson said. “I wasn’t able to really get into the flow of the …
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