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Update: Joel Zumaya Out for SeasonFlame-throwing Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya suffered what appeared to be a serious elbow injury during the eighth inning of Monday night's Detroit-Minnesota game.
Zumaya, who entered the game with two outs in the seventh, was injured with one out in the eighth on a pitch -- his 14th of the night -- to Twins outfielder Delmon Young.
The right-hander threw a fastball to Young, then immediately clutched his throwing arm in excruciating pain before falling to the grass behind the pitcher's mound at Target Field. Television replays showed his right hand trembling as he was examined by trainers, and he struggled to walk off the field, holding his injured arm tight to his torso.
The team had little to offer in the way of an update after the game, a 7-5 Tigers win over the Twins. Tuesday morning, the Tigers placed him on the 15-day disabled list with what was described simply as an "injured right elbow." Hours later, the team announced Zumaya suffered a non-displaced fracture of the olecranon, the bone at the tip of the elbow, and will miss the rest of the season.
"It's not good," Tigers manager Jim Leyland told reporters. "I wasn't sure exactly what happened, we're still not exactly sure. I don't think it does us any good to speculate at this time, but it obviously doesn't look good. It's an awful bad feeling when you see something like that happen to anybody."
Zumaya was seen wearing a sling after the game, but didn't talk to reporters.
"It's hard to see," catcher Gerald Laird said. "It was just like a little pop when he let it go."
Said bullpen-mate Phil Coke: "Something like that happens to a guy who has been a staple in our bullpen, it's brutal. It sucks."
Laird told his fallen teammate he expected to see him on the mound again soon.
"In seven, eight months, you'll be throwing again," he offered to his teammate.
But given his checkered injury past and the likely severity of his latest health woe, it's fair to wonder from afar if he'll be able to make it back at all.
Zumaya burst onto the scene during the 2006 regular season, and dazzled during his appearances in the American League Division Series later that year against the Yankees.
Share Since then, he has struggled mightily with injuries, going on the disabled list repeatedly and missing significant chunks of time for everything from a ruptured tendon in his hand in May 2007 to seemingly chronic shoulder problems.
The injury he suffered Monday night, though, appeared much more serious -- perhaps catastrophic -- conjuring up memories of Tom Browning, Dave Dravecky, Tony Saunders and the like.
For now, the Tigers and their fans have to be fearing the worst.
Information from the Associated Press used in this report.
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