Detroit Tigers right-hander Casey Mize is predicted to be positioned on the injured record with a left hamstring pressure, supervisor A.J. Hinch mentioned Tuesday.
Hinch advised MLB Community Radio that the staff should “get him symptom free.”
“Generally that takes a brief interval, typically it is longer,” Hinch mentioned. “He isn’t going to have the ability to do a ton till his leg will get again beneath him. I do not know the way lengthy that’s.”
Mize pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings on Sunday in a 7-6 win over the Los Angeles Angels to maneuver to 2-6 (4.23 ERA) on the season. He was eliminated within the sixth inning with what initially was referred to as a cramp in his left hamstring.
The No. 1 total choose of the 2018 MLB Draft, Mize is 9-19 with a 4.28 ERA in 55 begins for Detroit. He missed many of the 2022 season and all of 2023 as a result of Tommy John surgical procedure and again surgical procedure.
In the meantime, the Tigers scratched right-hander Jack Flaherty from his scheduled begin Wednesday on the Minnesota Twins after his second pain-killing injection for his ailing again, the staff introduced Tuesday.
Flaherty is coping with low again tightness, the staff mentioned, and he’ll take a brief relaxation earlier than anticipating to play catch later within the week. After two missed begins previously month, he may subsequent begin a recreation in opposition to the Cleveland Guardians, who go to Detroit on July 8-11.
Rookie right-hander Keider Montero is slated to start out in Flaherty’s place on Wednesday. Montero, who will flip 24 on Saturday, is 0-2 with a 9.35 ERA in 8 2/3 innings over two video games (one begin).
Flaherty, 28, is 5-5 with a 3.24 ERA, 14 walks and 115 strikeouts in 89 innings over 15 begins in his first season in Detroit after signing a one-year, $14 million contract.
A primary-round draft choose by the St. Louis Cardinals in 2014, Flaherty has a profession document of 47-39 with a 3.69 ERA, 268 walks and 863 strikeouts in 756 2/3 innings over 146 video games (140 begins). He has performed for the Cardinals (2017-23), Baltimore Orioles (2023) and Tigers.
In different Tigers information, shortstop Javier Baez (lumbar backbone irritation) is scheduled to start out a rehabilitation project Tuesday with Triple-A Toledo. He’s anticipated to be the designated hitter on Tuesday and take the sector at shortstop on Wednesday.
Baez, 31, has not performed since June 8. He’s batting .183 with one house run and 25 RBIs in 53 video games this season. The 2-time All-Star is a profession .252 hitter with 176 homers and 616 RBIs in 1,195 video games for the Chicago Cubs (2014-21), New York Mets (2021) and Tigers.
