Cubs reducer Colten Brewer punched a dugout wall after getting pulled in the 3rd inning of Saturday’s loss to the Los Angeles Angels. His weekend just got evenworse from there.
The right-hander lateron foundout he fractured his left hand. The club positioned him on the 60-day hurt list before Sunday’s series ending.
“My disappointment got the finest of me,” Brewer stated, including he had no intent of hurting himself.
He gotin Saturday’s videogame in relief of Kyle Hendricks, who left with back tightness and the Cubs routing 2-0, endingupbeing the veryfirst of 5 Cubs reducers. Brewer offered up 3 runs — one made — hit a batter and devoted a tossing mistake in two-thirds of an inning in what ultimately endedupbeing a 7-0 loss.
“When those things occur, you understand you screwed up,” Chicago supervisor Craig Counsell stated Sunday. “It’s not who he is, however it’s a error that he made.”
Brewer isn’t the just pitcher to punch his method onto the hurt list this season. Texas Rangers reducer Brock Burke landed there after breaking his non-throwing hand while punching a wall earlier this season following a bad getaway.
In 2022, Astros reducer Phil Maton broke his right pinkie when he punched a locker in disappointment after Houston’s regular-season finale, triggering him to missouton the postseason.
Brewer has appeared in 16 videogames this season for the Cubs, publishing a 5.66 ERA with no choices. Chicago remembered righty Hunter Bigge from Triple-A Iowa in a matching relocation. Bigge is 1-0 with a 1.32 ERA and 6 conserves in 11 videogames with Iowa.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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