Michael Lorenzen Exits Start with Apparent Injury

And he pulls a breaking ball to Vinny. The Royals get the out at second. Lorenzen covers first, not in time runners at 1st and 3rd with one out. Well, he showed some flexibility over there at first. Not quite like pasqua but pretty nice stretch. That's what he wanted. He wanted a ground ball there, watch him. He gets over. He knows the left handed batter , you gotta get to first base, pull it up. Ryan Sweeney is going to come out and so is trainer Chris de Lucia. You wonder, you know, if that stretch did anything to him, he fell down after what he did stretch and you get any kind of tweak in the groin area and any little change in a pitcher's motion to compensate for soreness in the legs. I mean, it doesn't seem like a big deal but for a pitcher it is and one little problem can cause other problems. That's exactly what he's doing. You want to see how it feels when he strides? Yeah. So let's see, the front knee slips a little bit and he says, you know, I think I better just sit down, you can tell he heard something, see how he's grimacing out. Yeah, it didn't look good when he fell back. So this will be an interesting decision here. They're gonna leave him in. Looks like he bounced around on his leg after that pitch. And Then he looked into the Royals dugout and here comes Macquire with chris de Lucia again. And that's a shame. And now in frustration, Lorenzen just drops his glove on the mound. So the first mountain visit or the first to check him out, I look at the bullpen and a few guys got up and started stirring around up there. Now they're all stirring.