BALTIMORE— Indians starter Anthony Reyes is wearing a wrap on his right elbow, but that is not necessarily a sign that the rest of his season in jeopardy.
“I talked to him today,” manager Eric Wedge said. “We’re going to skip another start. He feels better, but I don’t believe it makes much sense to start him on the 15th, so we’ll shoot for the 20th.”
Reyes’ next bullpen session is scheduled for early next week. After he throws, Wedge and the training staff will make another evaluation.
“We’ll see after that bullpen,” Wedge said.
There is no indication that anything seriously is wrong with Reyes’ sore elbow, but earlier in the season, he was sidelined by the Cardinals for a couple of weeks with the same malady.
With the Tribe long out of the postseason race, there is no urgent reason to push Reyes. In addition to having scouted him before he was acquired on July 26, Reyes has made six starts in a Cleveland uniform, compiling a 2-1 record and 1.83 earned-run average.
That is enough to give Reyes a head start on winning a spot in the rotation next spring training.
“Out of respect to him, we’d like to have him make a couple of more starts,” Wedge said. “But if he doesn’t feel up to it for any reason, we will shut him down.”
Making that decision easier was the performance of Scott Lewis in his major-league debut Wednesday night. Lewis delivered eight scoreless innings, giving the Orioles only three hits and walking none.
However, Wedge said his decision to postpone Reyes’ start had nothing to do with Lewis, who will, however, take the mound Monday night at Progressive Field.
Wedge reiterated why he declined to allow Lewis to go for the shutout in the ninth.
“If you send him out for the ninth, he might try a little too hard and something could go wrong,” the manager said. “You want him to leave with a good feeling. It was the right thing to do.”
In addition, after undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2004 and missing the first 2 1/2 months of this season with a lat muscle strain, the Tribe has opted to protect Lewis. Wednesday night, he threw 96 pitches.
“We’ll probably keep him in that same range next time,” Wedge said.
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