Pirates pitcher Ryan Vogelsong hospitalized after beaning

Pirates pitcher Ryan Vogelsong hospitalized after beaning

Pirates pitcher Ryan Vogelsong hospitalized after beaning

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — With reliever Ryan Vogelsong making a spot begin Monday in an amusement rescheduled from the day preceding, Pittsburgh Pirates supervisor Clint Hurdle realized that he was going need a couple of innings from his warm up area.

Things took a startling turn, in any case, when Colorado Rockies starter Jordan Lyles hit Vogelsong in the head with a contribute the base of the second inning of an amusement Pittsburgh went ahead to win 6-3.

Subsequent to stacking the bases, Lyles was ahead in the number 2-0 when his 92 mph fastball struck Vogelsong in the left cheek. The Pirates right-hander was taken from the field on a truck and was later admitted to a doctor's facility for wounds to one side eye.

Wilfredo Boscan (1-0) supplanted Vogelsong on the hill, pitching four innings of alleviation. He was making only his second major class appearance, and doing as such in the wake of watching his colleague leave the field was a test for the youthful Venezuelan.

"That is a major circumstance," Boscan said through a mediator. "Right then and there, rationally, I began addressing myself and getting myself prepared. I began working considerably harder in the warm up area, so when I turned out, I could rule."

Boscan permitted two keeps running on two hits and struck out two players. He likewise contributed with the bat, hitting a RBI single in his first vocation plate appearance in the base of the third.

"We really surrendered him a heads that he would get included today. Clearly, (it came) sooner than anybody expected," Hurdle said. "He could blend his pitches amazingly well."

Vogelsong pitched two scoreless innings before getting hit, holding Colorado to two hits and getting two strikeouts. The group expects a further overhaul on his status on Tuesday.




Repulsively, the Pirates constructed a major lead on Lyles (1-2) in the second and third innings and never thought back. They scored every one of the six of their keeps running over those two casings, however the greater part of the harm on Lyles was self-exacted. The 25-year-old right-hander strolled three, permitted two stolen bases, tossed a wild pitch and surrendered six keeps running more than 2 1/3 innings. The Pirates had six singles from five distinctive hitters in that extend, heaping up the keeps running with no additional fair hits.

"It's all a player in your offense being finished," Hurdle said. "Possibly you don't get balls that you can crash into holes for additional bases. You need to take what you can get, shoot some openings, get some singles, get a few men on base and utilize that kind of activity."

Mark Melancon pitched the last two outs of the ninth to gather his fifteenth recovery of the season.

Colorado's Carlos Gonzalez snapped a 0-for-17 streak at the plate. He completed the evening 2 for 4 with a couple of singles and scored on a D.J. LeMahieu fielder's choice in the ninth.

Home plate umpire Jeff Nelson left the diversion after a bit of flotsam and jetsam struck him in the eye amid a play at home. He was supplanted behind the plate by a respectable starting point umpire Ben May.

MAKING Arrangements

With Sunday's diversion put off as a result of downpour after one inning, chiefs Clint Hurdle and Walt Weiss veered on the destiny of Monday's beginning pitchers. Weiss will send Chad Bettis to the hill on Wednesday, while Hurdle chose to send Juan Nicasio back to the end of the line.

"I figure you can call it a silver coating from yesterday, I figure, that (Bettis) just tossed eight pitches," Weiss said. "We get the chance to bring him back again on this street trip."

Weiss picked Wednesday for Bettis as the day that made minimal destruction on whatever remains of his revolution. Obstacle's choice depended on restricting innings for Nicasio, who has effectively tossed 42 1/3 innings this season, in the wake of tossing 58 1/3 in all of 2015.

"I think the respite will really help him," Hurdle said. "We're really helping him construct his perseverance at this moment through the initial six or seven weeks of the season."

Preparing ROOM

Privateers: 3B Jung Ho Kang was held out of the beginning lineup for the second continuous day with a left hand harm. He squeeze hit for Boscan in the 6th inning, flying out to left-focus field. He is relied upon to begin on Tuesday.

Rockies: Reliever Jason Motte (shoulder) is proceeding with his recovery with Triple-An Albuquerque and is planned to toss on consecutive days surprisingly tonight. That is the last stride to him being reviewed, which Weiss said could happen amid the Boston arrangement.

UP NEXT

Rockies: Jorge De La Rosa (1-3, 10.18 ERA) is relied upon to fall off the debilitated rundown to begin a three-amusement arrangement against the Red Sox in Boston. De La Rosa has been on the rack with a crotch harm since April 26.

Privateers: Francisco Liriano (3-3, 4.63 ERA) will take the hill hoping to shake off consecutive misfortunes. His last one was of the unfortunate turn of events assortment, as he pitched seven innings and surrendered just two keeps running against the Atlanta Braves on May 18.