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- Updated: August 30, 2016
HOUSTON — As if the Athletics needed another injury to their already hobbled rotation, A’s rookie left-hander Sean Manaea left Monday night’s 6-0 loss to the Astros at Minute Maid Park with an upper back strain. He is day to day.
Manaea said he first felt the injury to his left rhomboid muscle in the bottom of the second.
“Just halfway through, I felt it in the left side of my spine and then it kind of shot through to my shoulder area, and that’s when I really felt it,” Manaea said. “Then in the next inning, throwing my warm pitches, I couldn’t really warm up.”
Trailing 2-0 in bottom of the fourth, Manaea forced a groundout from Yulieski Gurriel before throwing a strike to first baseman Marwin Gonzalez. That’s when Oakland manager Bob Melvin and a trainer came in to check on Manaea after observing a noticeable drop in his velocity.
“This late in the year, you don’t want him trying to pitch around that,” Melvin said.
After a brief discussion, …
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