The Kansas City Royals placed veteran right-hander Zack Greinke on the 15-day injured list Wednesday due to shoulder tendinitis.
Greinke felt pain in his pitching shoulder during the sixth inning of Tuesday’s 9-3 loss against the Minnesota Twins and was pulled from the game.
The Royals recalled right-hander Dylan Coleman from Triple-A Omaha in a corresponding move.
Greinke (1-9, 5.44 ERA) said the shoulder was not bothering him when he took the mound to start the sixth inning. He said he experienced discomfort during a six-pitch at-bat to Minnesota’s Jose Miranda.
After Greinke retired Miranda on a pop-up, he motioned to the dugout. He soon exited with a team trainer.
“It just wasn’t coming out the same,” Greinke told reporters afterward. “So, figured it was better to come out then try to keep doing that and make things worse all the way around. Probably wasn’t going to get many guys out and probably would have made my shoulder worse.”
Greinke, 39, gave up six runs and seven hits over 5 1/3 innings. He served up three homers, struck out three and walked none.
Greinke is winless in his last 11 starts in the second season of his second tour of duty with Kansas City. He won the American League Cy Young Award in 2009 during his first and has an overall record of 224-150 and 3.48 ERA with six teams.
Coleman, 26, had an 18.00 ERA during five appearances for the Royals earlier this season.
–Field Level Media