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Frank Francisco Has Sore Shoulder; Not Considered Serious

Posted on June 5th, 2009 10:13pm by Evan Grant
Filed under Injury report, Texas Rangers

BOSTON - Frank Francisco was unavailable Friday night because his oft-injured right shoulder felt stiff, perhaps due to cool weather, before the Rangers game with Boston.

Though Francisco has a long history of arm troubles and missed two weeks already this season with biceps tendonitis, the Rangers don’t believe the injury to be serious. Manager Ron Washington said the disabled list is not a concern at this point. After pitching the ninth on Wednesday and briefly warming up Thursday, Francisco couldn’t get loose before Friday’s game. The Rangers made a game-time decision to not use him. They stuck with that even after Francisco called the dugout in the ninth inning with Boston rallying. The answer was a firm no.

“We weren’t going to let him try to get loose,” said Washington, who allowed RHP Darren O’Day to work his way through a ninth-inning jam in the Rangers’ 5-1 win. “You’ve got to take everything into account. He said he didn’t feel very good before the game, so that was it.”

Said Francisco: “I told them I wanted to go. They told me they needed to make sure they’d be able to have me in September.”

More on Francisco coming up in our game coverage.

4 Comments to “Frank Francisco Has Sore Shoulder; Not Considered Serious”

jcouch @ June 5th, 2009 at 10:37 pm

I like to see that Franky is a ganer…
jcouch @ June 5th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

FELIZ PITCHED a 2-hitter tonight… he went 6 and only threw 90 pitches
scooper @ June 5th, 2009 at 11:45 pm

@jcouch: how many did he walk? that’s the key with him.
jrios @ June 6th, 2009 at 1:33 pm

@scooper: where’s the love? enjoy this ranger success like you haven’t had it in a decade and it won’t happen again in a decade! Come on!!!