Tyler Anderson, scratched from his scheduled start Monday due to left shoulder stiffness, said he first felt discomfort while throwing his bullpen session Saturday in Arizona but that “hopefully in a few days I’ll be good.”
“I couldn’t get it loose, couldn’t get it going and couldn’t get much behind the ball,” Anderson said. “We waited to see how it felt yesterday and it was the same way, because some shoulder inflammation had set in.”
Manager Bud Black maintained that medically, the club’s “optimistic that he’ll pitch again this year.”
The southpaw scuffled throughout August and into the first part of September, but rebounded with quality starts in each of his past two outings, including six innings of two-run ball on the road against the Dodgers last week.