
ATLANTA, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The Atlanta Braves indicated Sunday they are seeking to drop injured closer Billy Wagner from their post-season roster.
Wagner strained his oblique muscle in Friday's 5-4 Braves win over San Francisco in Game 2 of their best-of-five National League Division Series.
The Braves have asked permission from Major League Baseball to replace him with Takashi Saito, who had been out with a sore shoulder, for the remainder of the series.
Because Wagner has indicated he will retire at the end of the season, the durable closer has likely pitched his last major league game. He was fifth in the NL with 37 saves this season.
"We threw him a little bit in the tunnel and he can't go at all," Braves Manager Bobby Cox said Sunday. "Saito says he feels great, and we're going to go with it."
|
|
|
| Additional Sports News Stories | |
SHAWNEE HILLS, Ohio, June 3 (UPI) --
Two Ohio State football players were arrested during the weekend after allegedly urinating in public at the site of a PGA tournament, police records indicated.
|
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (UPI) --
"Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes, was honored at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards in San Francisco, the organization said.
|
The Internet could someday look very different and be less open and free if a proposal for the International Telecommunications Union, an arm of the United Nations, to take over management of the Internet comes to pass, critics of the proposal say.
|
Fat cats fighting for title ... Man misses prom after hijacking car ... Car dealer proposes 341-foot flagpole ... Cows have 'relations' on Pa. parkway ... The world as we know it from UPI.
|
| Stories | Photos | People | Comments |
View Caption