SEATTLE — Toronto Blue Jays closer Jordan Romano was eliminated within the high of the seventh inning of Tuesday’s All-Star Game with tightness in his again
Romano entered the sport with the American League main 2-1 at T-Mobile Park and induced Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith to fly out. The subsequent batter, Arizona outfielder Lourdes Guerriel Jr., hammered Romano’s second pitch 395 toes to left subject for what was initially referred to as a game-tying dwelling run
While the play was underneath umpire assessment, AL supervisor Dusty Baker visited the mound together with a coach. Romano walked off the sector moments later and was changed by Detroit’s Michael Lorenzen.
“He just said when he threw his last pitch in the bullpen before he went out there, he just felt a little tightness in his lower back,” Baker instructed Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal. “We gotta take every precaution to take care of these players, even if they’re on another team. Because they’ve got to go back and play.
“He’s such an enormous, essential half. He’s the closer of the Toronto Blue Jays, so we hope that it is nothing.
The dwelling run was finally overturned, and Gurriel went on to attain base on an infield single.
“I kind of lost it, but it didn’t disappear behind the foul pole, it hit the railing up there,” Baker stated of his view of Gurriel’s deep shot. “So, I didn’t know right away, but I thought it was foul. And then when (Baltimore catcher) Adley Rutschman looked at me and he thought it was foul. And we got that famous call to the clubhouse: They said it was foul.”
–Derek Harper, Field Level Media
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