“Things didn’t go well. I had a couple of setbacks. After my second outing, I had to get a cortisone injection. That didn’t hold up either so I’m shutting it down for the season,” Dunn told Rox Pile and other reporters. “It’s disappointing that I’m not going to be able to be back this year but ultimately I know I gave it everything I could to be back. It just didn’t hold up.”
Dunn was to be Colorado’s primary late-game out-getter against left-handed batters down the stretch had he recovered. Though he has a 5.61 ERA in 93 games in purple, his career numbers against left-handed hitters is solid, with them hitting .