Kerry Wood is injured. Weird.
The Chicago Cubs righty was getting out of his hot tub at home like usual, and slipped and fell. Now he needs a few days to recoup, missing the Cubs' spring training kickoff, once again.
But Wood is 30 pounds lighter than last year and ready for the bullpen to take some strain off of his surgically repaired right elbow and shoulder, which he says feel stronger than ever.
Turning 30 this June, Wood is a career 71-56 with a 3.68 ERA in 189 major league games, one strike-out away from 1300.
On May 6, 1998, a month before he turned 21, Wood struck out 20 Houston Astros in one of the greatest pitching performances ever.
At least he didn't pull a Steve Sparks and blow out his shoulder trying to tear a telephone book in half.
4 comments:
I totally forgot about that whole Sparks/phonebook thing.
What a sally.
Yeah, who hurts themselves ripping a phonebook in half?
Kerry Wood might.
Good thing Prior wasn't in there with him. What a couple of disaster-magnets.
Oh God. I don't think FEMA is equipped for that brand of disaster management. We saw the bang up job they did with N'Awlins. Prior and Wood would kill that organization altogether.
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