Washington Nationals reliever Luis Ayala was accidentally hit in the upper left forearm by a shotgun pellet during a holiday hunting trip, the club and Ayala's agent said yesterday. Though the pellet is still lodged in his arm, doctors believe Ayala will be ready for spring training.
"He's very lucky," Joe Longo, Ayala's agent, said yesterday by phone. "The doctors told him, 'Luis, a couple inches difference, and we would have had trouble.' "
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