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Paxton ready for start after testing fingernail

SEATTLE -- Mariners left-handed pitcher James Paxton is ready for his scheduled start Tuesday after testing his fingernail injury in a bullpen session Saturday.

"Today, actually, the pain was pretty much gone where it started ripping off," Paxton said after playing catch before Sunday's game. "Yesterday I could still feel it a little bit, but today was much better. So I think its just going to be a thing that gets better every day."

Paxton has a fake fingernail over the torn nail on the middle finger of his pitching hand that cut his last start, on Aug.