Surviving the First Shot

The Indians survived a scare today as C.C. took a batted ball off of his left wrist/forearm and was rushed off of the mound, only to find that the X-rays came back negative. Before there is rejoicing that the Indians dodged a bullet, let’s all remember that Hafner didn’t break any bones at first look last year either.

Ol’ Crooked Cap is listed as day to day and may be pushed back in the rotation to let him ease his way back into the rotation. While the “Call up Atom Miller” movement gained some immediate steam, it’s more likely that the Indians would have let Brian Slocum have a couple of starts to allow Miller to start the season at AAA to refine his repertoire.

Though not reported, it’s possible that the ball hitting C.C.’s arm looked a little somthing like this.

OK, that was downright mean. But, maybe carrying some extra girth allowed C.C. to avoid serious injury. I’m not a doctor (nor do I play one on TV), but day-to-day with further evaluation sounds a lot better than a broken fill-in-the-blank and missing X amount of starts.

Let’s all say a little extra prayer (after taking our vitamins) tonight that the aCCe will start the season in the rotation and not in a cast.