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Setback? Mariners shut Hisashi Iwakuma down in latest recovery effort | The News Tribune

Don’t call it a setback, Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais told reporters on Sunday.

At least, not yet.

But the report from Hisashi Iwakuma’s latest simulated start on Sunday was not positive.

Iwakuma threw against live batters in Seattle on Saturday and lasted about seven or eight pitches, Servais said, before he shut it down because his arm didn’t feel right.

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