Detroit Tigers starting right-hander Matt Manning was placed on the injured list on Thursday for the second time this season after taking a line drive to the right foot — the second fracture ending his season.
Manning went on the 15-day IL on Thursday. In a corresponding move, the Tigers recalled right-hander Trey Wingenter from Triple-A Toledo.
Wingenter, 29, is 1-0 with a 7.00 ERA in nine innings over 10 appearances for the Tigers this season. He is 0-1 with a 7.06 ERA in 21 2/3 innings over 24 games (two starts) at the Triple-A and Single-A levels this season.
The 25-year-old Manning also sustained a fractured toe on his right foot after the Toronto Blue Jays’ Alejandro Kirk connected for a comebacker on April 11, causing Manning to miss more than two months.
“Yeah, kind of right when it happened, I was just annoyed that it was the same foot. Same spot, basically,” Manning said. “And I was like, ‘Ah, I don’t know if it’s broken; I hope it’s not.’ Made the play, though, that’s cool.”
Manning is 5-4 with a 3.58 ERA, 21 walks and 50 strikeouts in 78 innings over 15 starts this season — 13 after returning from his first fracture on June 27.
“You can count probably on one hand how many pitchers have gotten hit in the foot with line drives this season; he’s had it twice. That’s incredibly unlucky,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “119 (mph) off any part of your body is going to probably put you on the injured list. … There’s not much you can do once you go through your delivery and the dude smokes a ball off of you. All you can do is hope that the X-ray is going to come back negative. This one didn’t.”
—Field Level Media
