What Cubs starter Justin Steele’s thumb injury means going forward is to-be determined, but it’s at least not good news for the rotation in the short term.
“But obviously I wasn’t playing basketball or throwing a football around anywhere,” he said. “Feels weird.”
Sunday was Steele’s first start in eight days, and he was moved up from his scheduled Monday outing only hours before the game after Marcus StromanHe breezed through the first three innings, throwing only 35 pitches while holding the Dodgers to one base hit. “Kind of sore to squeeze the ball as hard as I was wanting to,” Steele said. “Got out of that inning, went back in the dugout and was trying to pop it, trying to stretch it out, get it loose.
Overall, Steele held the Dodgers to two runs and three hits in his four innings. He didn’t use the injury as an excuse for what happened in the fourth.
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