Rockies’ Jon Gray goes on injured list with forearm tightness

As it turns out, Jon Gray’s forearm wounded has not healed completely.

The Rockies placed the right-handed starter connected the 10-day injured database Wednesday due to the fact that of lingering tightness successful his forearm. He was scheduled to commencement Thursday’s crippled against Atlanta astatine Coors Field.

Manager Bud Black said Tuesday that Gray had nary issues with his limb during a bullpen league and said that Gray would apt marque his commencement connected Thursday.

“Once helium realized that helium felt good, determination were nary issues with the forearm, and helium worked connected his pitches,” Black said. “We worked connected fastball command, a accordant delivery, a accordant limb slot. He spun immoderate curveballs and worked connected his changeup.”

Gray near his commencement against the Dodgers successful the 3rd inning connected Saturday nighttime astatine Los Angeles. Gray was intelligibly successful symptom erstwhile helium spiked a pitch.

This marks Gray’s 2nd stint connected the IL this season. He was injured June 4 and placed connected the IL a time aboriginal with a strain of his close flexor tendon and symptom successful his elbow. Gray underwent an MRI but the trial indicated determination was nary structural damage. Still, Gray didn’t transportation again until June 25.

Gray, 29, is scheduled to go a escaped cause for the archetypal time, but he’s said helium would similar to re-sign with Colorado. He is 7-10 with a 4.13 ERA successful 24 starts.

In different moves, the Rockies recalled right-handed pitchers Antonio Santos and Justin Lawrence, and besides selected the declaration of right-hander Julian Fernández from Triple-A Albuquerque.