Rockies’ Jon Gray goes on injured list with right shoulder inflammation

It turns out some­thing was wrong with Jon Gray after all.

The Rock­ies on Fri­day placed the strug­gling right-hand­ed starter on the 10-day injured list with right shoul­der inflam­ma­tion, retroac­tive to Wednes­day. The club also recalled right-han­der José Muji­ca from their alter­nate train­ing site.

“After his last start, his shoul­der was a lit­tle ten­der, a lit­tle inflamed,” man­ag­er Bud Black said before Fri­day night’s game against the Dodgers in Los Ange­les. “That hap­pens from start to start over a peri­od of time with all pitch­ers and some­times you’re able to fight through it.”

But not this time.

Gray was charged with sev­en runs on nine hits in 2 2/3 innings in a 23–5 loss to San Fran­cis­co on Tues­day night. His ERA has bal­looned to 6.69, he has a 1.44 WHIP and bat­ters are hit­ting .281 against him.

“I’ve got to find a way to get my (veloc­i­ty) back up. I’ve got to find a way to snap my slid­er off,” Gray said after Tuesday’s game.

Black empha­sized that although the shoul­der has been both­er­ing Gray for a cou­ple of starts, the injury is not con­sid­ered seri­ous and Black char­ac­ter­ized the move to the IL as proactive.

“This time, there was just a lit­tle bit more gen­er­al sore­ness and we thought it might get in the way of his next start … put some sort of con­straint on his next start, so we decid­ed to do it now,” Black said.

Gray’s aver­age fast­ball veloc­i­ty has dipped, from 96 mph last sea­son to 93.9 mph this sea­son. On Wednes­day, how­ev­er, Black reject­ed the idea that Gray had a sore arm or was fatigued. On Fri­day, Black explained that Gray’s sore­ness flared up more than usual.

“Every pitch­er is a lit­tle sore after every start,” Black said. “With Jon, the next cou­ple of days it didn’t real­ly resolve itself like it usu­al­ly does.”

Gray’s injury neces­si­tates a rota­tion shuf­fle. Black said that rook­ie Ryan Castel­lani will now start Sunday’s game against the Dodgers. Mon­day in San Diego, Col­orado could start lefty Kyle Free­land or pos­si­bly right-han­der Chi Chi Gonzalez.

Dahl’s clos­er. Out­field­er David Dahl, on the IL with a side/lower back injury, took mul­ti­ple at-bats with the Rock­ies’ alter­na­tive site squad on Fri­day in Den­ver and could join the 28-man ros­ter soon.

“David had a good day today,” Black said. “Word got back to me that he felt great. He swung the bat well, the ball was com­ing off the bat, he was dri­ving the ball.”

Black said he expects Dahl to join the team on its West Coast road trip and then the club will decide when to acti­vate him.

“We’ll see, but from what I was told today, he’s in a real­ly good spot,” Black said.

Foot­notes. Injured right-han­der Wade Davis (shoul­der) threw at the alter­na­tive site on Thurs­day. Black said Davis is “feel­ing much bet­ter,” adding that there is a chance that Davis could return this sea­son “in some capac­i­ty.” … Black is glad to see hard-throw­ing right-han­der Jesus Tinoco back with the orga­ni­za­tion. Tinoco, trad­ed to Mia­mi ear­li­er this sea­son, was picked up on waivers by the Rock­ies on Thurs­day. For now, Tinoco will pitch at the alter­na­tive site. “It’s always good to have a big arm, for depth and we’ll see how this plays out,” Black said.


On Deck

Rock­ies RHP Ger­mán Márquez (2–5, 4.88 ERA) at Dodgers RHP Tony Gon­solin (0–0, 0.51)
7:10 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Dodger Stadium
TV: AT&T SportsNet
Radio: KOA 850 AM/94.1 AM

If the Rock­ies are going to make the play­offs — and make some noise should they get there, — they’ll need Mar­quez to rebound. He’s com­ing off a loss to the Padres at Coors Field in which he gave up five runs on eight hits over six innings. Man­ag­er Bud Black said that Marquez’s stuff is still good but acknowl­edged that the right-han­der his been miss­ing loca­tion with his fast­ball and slid­er. Mar­quez is try­ing to escape a career-long four-game los­ing streak (over his last five starts) in which he has a 6.83 ERA. He is 2–1 with a 2.54 ERA in eight career starts vs. the Dodgers and 2–1 with a 1.99 ERA in five career starts at Dodger Sta­di­um. Gon­solin, who throws a split-fin­ger change­up, has faced the Rock­ies just once in his career, on July 30, 2019, record­ing a save when he pitched four innings of relief, giv­ing up one earned run and strik­ing out three. Even after pitch­ing only three innings and allow­ing his first run of the sea­son against Texas last Sun­day, Gon­solin still owns a 0.51 ERA. He was called up from the Dodgers’ alter­na­tive train­ing site but it appears like­ly that he has found a spot in the rotation.

Trend­ing: Nolan Are­na­do entered Fri­day night’s game with 28 home runs and 83 RBIs vs. the Dodgers, sec­ond only to Todd Hel­ton (48 homers, 153 RBIs) all-time among Rock­ies players.

At issue: Catch­er Tony Wolters has strug­gled against Dodgers pitch­ing, espe­cial­ly in Los Ange­les. Wolters entered Fri­day night’s game bat­ting .160 against L.A. (15-for-94) and .114 (5‑for-44) at Dodger Stadium.

Pitch­ing Probables:
Sun­day: Rock­ies RHP Ryan Castel­lani (1–2, 4.81) at Dodgers LHP Julio Urias (3–0, 3.27), 8:10 p.m., ATTRM
Mon­day: Rock­ies TBD at Padres RHP Dinel­son Lamet (2–1, 2.62), 7:10 p.m., ATTRM
Tues­day: Rock­ies LHP Kyle Free­land (2–1, 4.09) at Padres RHP Mike Clevinger (1–2, 3.14), 7:10 p.m., ATTRM

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