What we’ve obtained right here, is failure to speak.
Purple Sox pitcher Liam Hendricks informed reporters right this moment that Alex Cora had a “slip of the tongue” on Sunday when the Sox supervisor stated that the veteran reliever’s season is probably going over attributable to a hip harm.
Hendriks stated he’s mentioned the matter with Cora and added that he totally expects to pitch once more this season.
Within the curiosity of creating issues totally clear, the loquacious Australian issued a moderately memorable replace of his personal on the second opinion he obtained.
“I noticed a special man and he was like, ‘You’ve obtained the physique of a gorilla however you’ve obtained the hips of a cheerleader.’ I didn’t like that euphemism as a lot. I like, ‘Your physique is a brick s—house and your door is made out of a sheet,'” Hendriks stated, via MassLive’s Chris Cotillo.
The 36-year-old righty has missed greater than two months with a hip harm, which is the newest in a long term of unhealthy harm luck for the three-time All-Star.
The Purple Sox signed Hendriks to a two-year, $10 million contract earlier than the 2024 season whereas he was recovering from Tommy John surgical procedure, with the hope that he may return to the mound late within the season. However he by no means noticed the sphere in 2024, and was positioned on the injured checklist with proper elbow irritation simply hours earlier than Opening Day again in March.
After he was activated from the IL in April, Hendriks struggled in 14 appearances, posting a 6.59 ERA. He’s been sidelined since late Might with the hip harm and was transferred to the 60-day injured checklist in early July.
Simply months after submitting an All-Star season for the White Sox in 2022, Hendriks underwent remedy for stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He returned to the large leagues in Might of 2023 and pitched in simply 5 video games earlier than struggling the elbow harm that led to Tommy John surgical procedure.
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