Garcia: Elbow Injury

Here is what Christian Garcia had to say after the game:

“It was some soreness in the elbow.  It was pretty serious.”

“It was pretty much until the third inning, that’s when I started feeling it.  I felt it before, but the more I kept throwing, the more pain I’d get.”

“It was like a pinch.  Only my extension, when I’d extend my elbow.  It was a pinch type of thing, right on one spot.  When I was releasing the ball.”

“It’s kind of like the same pain I had before (when he missed the second half of last year).”

“Tomorrow, I have no idea what we’re going to do.  Tim (Lentych) is making calls, I guess you can ask him.  I have no idea what we’re doing.”

“I’m concerned, of course.  It just keeps happening.  It keeps reoccuring.  I don’t want to get too concerned, because it could be something not that serious, like a little scar tissue or something like that.”

“It was to the point where I was 1-2 on the guy, and the guy already took two bad swings.  If I could have thrown it, I would have thrown it.  I got to the point where I couldn’t throw my next pitch.”

“I had experienced a little something like that when I was in Tampa, where I’d throw three innings and I’d start gradually feeling it.  But it never got to the point where it did when I threw that last changeup.  It didn’t get to that point.  When it got to that point, I said I can’t.  I grabbed that ball, there was no shot I could throw it.”