Was it Reid's throwing hand that got hit?

[TBone.sixpack]

SSIA

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

Yes.

 

[patdog]

Yep. Didn't look good. Hope he'll be good to go next weekend.

 

[maroonmania]

Yep. Didn't look good. Hope he'll be good to go next weekend.

Believe it was his pitching hand. The only good thing is normally the right hand of a right handed batter is on the opposite side of the bat from the ball. Looked like it might have gotten him more on the base of the palm where there is a little more natural padding. Anyway we don't need to lose him out of the bullpen. Really right now the only dependable options in relief are RRigby, DBrown, BSmith and Humphreys. Would hate to see that drop to just 3. One bright spot is that we know next weekend we will only need 3 starters which would allow Pilkington to be available as a reliever.

 

[AlCoDog]

You sure? Thought it was his left hand.

 

[MSUDC11]

One bright spot is that we know next weekend we will only need 3 starters which would allow Pilkington to be available as a reliever.

That's a very interesting point. And if we get to Omaha, with the gaps in the scheduling, I'm guessing we would use one of our Top 3 guys twice should we be climbing back through the losers bracket.

So unless it's late in the Championship series and we're just totally out of starting pitching, you can probably pencil in Pilkington as a bullpen guy the rest of the year. And that's big, especially if Reid is done. Hope for the best with him though. Cohen said they'd find out how bad it was this morning.

 

[Thirty-Two Dive]

You sure? Thought it was his left hand.

Yes, it was his right hand. At least, according to what I remember seeing. He opened up, as he slightly turned into the pitch. Right wrist was (seemingly) exposed at that point.

 

[57stratdawg]

Cyr too, but I hate the idea of moving starters into relief situations unless it's absolutely necessary.

 

[Junction John]

Definitely right hand. He was shaking it off as he stood on first. Looked like his palm or inside top of the wrist from the way he was looking at it. Although the right palm would be a strange place to get hit by a pitch... Seems more likely that it hit the inside of his right wrist.