Tigers Reliever Zumaya Injures Arm Playing 'Guitar Hero'
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In a story that sounds like it was ripped from the headlines of The Brushback, the cause of the wrist/forearm inflammation that forced Detroit Tigers pitcher Joel Zumaya to miss three games during the ALCS has finally been determined: the reliever was playing too much "Guitar Hero" on his PlayStation 2.
"That was probably what was taking place," Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski confessed during his appearance on a Detroit talk-radio show. Dombrowski said that Detroit's training staff discovered that Zumaya's forearm pain was more consistent with the action of a guitar player than a baseball pitcher, so they asked Zumaya to quit playing the game. He did, and he was pain-free throughout the World Series, pitching three times with a 3.00 ERA. The team is confident that the injury will not happen to Zumaya again.
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