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Following the home-half of Saturday afternoon's split-squad win over the Miami Marlins in Viera, Florida's Space Coast Stadium, Nationals' skipper Matt Williams told reporters that the scheduled starter for this afternoon's Grapefruit League game, Stephen Strasburg, twisted his left ankle while working out.
Williams explained that Strasburg would miss today's game against Detroit, with A.J. Cole taking the mound for Washington instead, when the Nationals travel to Lakeland, Florida's Joker Marchant Stadium to take on the Tigers.
The injury to Strasburg was not believed to be serious though, Williams explained, as quoted by the Washington Post's James Wagner.
Strasburg "rolled his left ankle" during a conditioning drill, the second-year skipper said.
"'I don’t think it’s serious,'" Williams told the WaPost reporter.
"You start messing with other parts of the body and go out there and try to throw, as scheduled, 75 pitches, we don’t want to have any issues with the arm trying to overcompensate."
Strasburg updated reporters on the injury this morning as quoted by 106.7 the FAN and 99.1 WNEW sportscaster Craig Heist:
Strasburg says he sprained the ankle, "doing some stuff in the weight room and came down and rolled it pretty bad." #Nats
— Craig Heist (@cheistsports) March 22, 2015
Strasburg--"Can't worry about it. It's the same stuff I've been doing my whole career and it's unfortunate. Accidents do happen sometimes."
— Craig Heist (@cheistsports) March 22, 2015
Williams too provided an update on Strasburg this morning when he met with reporters:
#Nats Manager Matt Williams said RHP Stephen Strasburg threw a light bullpen today. No issues. "He's going to be just fine."
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) March 22, 2015
This afternoon's game is being broadcast on the radio in the nation's capital with Charlie Slowes and Dave Jageler calling the action on 1580 AM WJFK (and MLB.com's Gameday radio).
The Nationals released the lineup for this afternoon's game this morning:
#Nats at #Tigers, 1pm: Taylor CF, D.Robinson RF, Uggla 2B, Carp 1B, Moore LF, Stewart 3B, Leon C, Burriss SS, Cole P
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) March 22, 2015
Game Time: 1:05 PM EDT. AUDIO: 1580 AM WFED; MLB.com's Gameday audio.