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May 29, 2008
Drew Scratched
Right-hander Tim Drew spent the first eight innings Wednesday charting pitches. It’s the regular assignment performed by the next day’s starting pitcher.
Drew’s assignment in the bottom of the eighth turned out to be a nightmare for the Bluefish. Without a healthy position player on the bench, he was sent in as a pinch runner following a leadoff walk to Calvin Pickering in a 3-2 game.
Drew moved to second on a sacrifice bunt before tagging up and advancing to third on a popup down the right field line that was caught by first baseman Val Majewski. A couple of steps shy of the bag Drew pulled his right-hamstring and fell to the ground.
``I was pretty cold,’’ Drew said. ``I tagged up on a fly ball to first base and took off and pulled it. I wasn’t even trying to slide. My hamstring just pulled out. I couldn’t run any more.’’
Left-hander Eric DuBose replaced Drew tonight and he could miss a couple of weeks.
``Two weeks at the most,’’ Drew said. ``It’s just hard to tell. It’s one of those freak things. You never know with a pulled muscle. I’m hoping we can get it healed, do my stuff here icing and heating and get back out there as soon as possible.’’
Right-hander Matt Pike will work on three days rest Friday against the first-place Camden Riversharks. Manager Tommy John said the Bluefish will need to sign a starter to work against the Riversharks Saturday.
Former Road Warriors left-hander Charlie Hesseltine, 23, is one of the candidates. He was a combined 3-7 with 7.33 ERA in 27 appearances (11 starts) for the York Revolution and the Road Warriors in his second professional season a year ago.
``We’ll find somebody,’’ John said.
Rich
Posted by Elliott on May 29, 2008 6:43 PM
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Sign Trevor Marcotte, who finished with decent numbers on the now folded New Haven team in the CanAm league last year and pitched for the Road Warriors for a while in 07 although stats were not that great. He can give the Bluefish 6 or 7 solid innings. Would be a good addition based on what the majority of the staff is showing right now.
Posted by: FishFan at May 29, 2008 10:09 PM
