Friday started AJ Russell left tonight’s game after just three innings due to “soreness,” Tony Vitello said, via Rocky Top Insider.
“Just some soreness and we’ve kind of been harping to our players to communicate with us with what’s going on. It could be anything,” Vitello said postgame. “He had some soreness in a certain part of his body. I don’t know if it was necessarily (his) arm. I kind of leave that up to those guys. Maybe it’s my mechanism. I don’t have any control of it, so I don’t want to stress until we’ve got the full word, but we got enough word to take him out of the game and give the ball off to (Chris Stamos) there.