DENVER — Two Chicago White Sox players left the game with injuries Wednesday, leaving them to hope their 10-4 loss to the Colorado Rockies wasn’t truly costly.
Reliever Ronald Belsario (lower right back tightness) and right fielder Avisail Garcia (jammed left shoulder) left the game.
Belisaro gave up five hits, all singles, and five runs in one-third of an inning. He said his back was tight when he took the mound in relief of Scott Downs, who gave up a single to Justin Morneau, the only batter he faced. Belisario said he has previously experienced back tightness at Coors Field, more so there than anywhere else. He said he had trouble finishing his pitches — he threw 16, 11 for strikes — as the inning progressed and the tightness in his back worsened. He faced six batters and gave up five singles before Jake Petricka came on and allowed a two-run double to Carlos Gonzalez.
Belisario lay on the floor of the clubhouse after the game while a member of the White Sox’s training staff stretched his back.
“I’ll be fine,” Belisario said. “I’ll be ready to go tomorrow.”
Garcia will undergo an MRI on Thursday in Chicago. Preliminary X-rays for a fracture, separation or dislocation of his shoulder were negative.
“Hopefully I going to be in the field soon,” Garcia said. “I feel right now a lot of pain, sore too. Let’s see what happen tomorrow.”
Garcia was injured trying to catch a ball hit by DJ LeMahieu with two out in the sixth. The ball fell for a run-scoring double that tied the game at 4.
“I didn’t catch it,” Garcia said. “When I touch the ground with my hand, it fell out. I feel the bone in my shoulder (go) like crack, crack.”