After beginning warm up tosses prior to Saturday’s game, Francisco Liriano started back to the dugout and was scratched from tonight’s start. The word from the Pirates is neck tightness. Vance Worley made the emergency start in his place tonight against the Brewers.
UPDATE: Liriano said after the game that it was simply just tightness in his neck. He said that he’s had it happen before, when he hasn’t slept right. He said that the pain went away in a day or two in the past, but he will re-evaluate it tomorrow.
Clint Hurdle said that the plan is to keep the rotation as set going forward, and to re-evaluate Liriano on a day-by-day basis.
