Francisco Cervelli left tonight’s game in the bottom of the seventh inning after favoring his right hand. The Pirates announced that Cervelli left the game with discomfort in his right wrist.
This isn’t good news, all previous injuries aside. It seems like this is becoming a nightly occurrence where a player leaves the game early. It happened to Francisco Liriano on Saturday, Jordy Mercer on Sunday, and Cervelli tonight. In this case, Cervelli has been huge for the Pirates this year, and losing him would be a big loss.
No word yet on whether the Pirates will actually lose him, since he is currently being treated and evaluated. Chris Stewart has been having a good year as the backup, but that’s still a downgrade from Cervelli. If the Pirates do have to make a DL move here, then it would be interesting to see who they’d pick between Elias Diaz and Tony Sanchez for the guy to come up from Triple-A. But that’s getting ahead of the situation.
More updates will be provided as soon as we receive them.
