04-12-2007, 11:38 AM
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Mussina May Land On DL Hell
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Mike Mussina became their latest injury casualty, leaving the game in the third inning with a strained left hamstring.
The Yankees are planning to wait few days to see how Mussina responds before deciding on whether to put him on the disabled list. Mussina and Joe Torre expressed guarded optimism that he would miss only one start.
Mussina was rolling along in the third, going toe-to-toe with Minnesota's Ramon Ortiz (2-0) in a classic pitchers' duel. After the first two Twins singled in the inning, Mussina threw a 1-1 pitch to Luis Castillo and signaled to the Yankees' dugout.
Pitching coach Ron Guidry walked to the mound, and after conferring with Mussina for just a few seconds, he summoned Joe Torre and trainer Gene Monahan to join them. Less than a minute later, Mussina and Monahan walked slowly toward the dugout.
Mussina first felt discomfort while facing the first batter of the inning. "I didn't know how bad it was so I threw a couple of more," he said. "It grabbed at me again, so before I ruined the good part of a month, I got out of there." Mussina is the sixth Yankees player to strain or pull a muscle this year, joining Bobby Abreu (oblique), Chien-Ming Wang (hamstring), Andy Pettitte (back), Johnny Damon (calf) and Hideki Matsui (hamstring).
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