Sports Cubs reliever Colten Brewer punched a dugout wall after getting pulled within the third inning of Saturday’s loss to the Los Angeles Angels. His weekend most effective bought worse from there.
The comely-hander later learned he fractured his left hand. The membership placed him on the 60-day injured list sooner than Sunday’s sequence finale.
“My frustration bought the upper of me,” Brewer said, adding he had no map of wounding himself.
He entered Saturday’s sport in relief of Kyle Hendricks, who left with help tightness and the Cubs trailing 2-0, becoming the first of 5 Cubs relievers. Brewer gave up three runs — one earned — hit a batter and dedicated a throwing error in two-thirds of an inning in what in the end turned a 7-0 loss.
“When those things happen, you know you screwed up,” Chicago manager Craig Counsell said Sunday. “It’s now not who he’s, alternatively it’s a mistake that he made.”
Brewer is now not presumably one of the top pitcher to punch his system onto the injured list this season. Texas Rangers reliever Brock Burke landed there after breaking his non-throwing hand whereas punching a wall earlier this season following a glum outing.
In 2022, Astros reliever Phil Maton broke his comely pinkie when he punched a locker in frustration after Houston’s long-established-season finale, inflicting him to miss the postseason.
Brewer has seemed in 16 video games this season for the Cubs, posting a 5.66 ERA with out a choices. Chicago recalled righty Hunter Bigge from Triple-A Iowa in a corresponding circulate. Bigge is 1-0 with a 1.32 ERA and six saves in 11 video games with Iowa.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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