Denver, CO (Sports Network) – The Colorado Rockies placed shortstop Troy Tulowitzki on the 15-day disabled list Friday with a rib fracture on his right side.<\/p>\n
Tulowitzki is expected to miss the next 4-to-6 weeks after suffering the injury while diving for a grounder in the eighth inning of Thursday’s 5-4 loss to the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n
The standout shortstop went 1-for-3 with a run scored before the injury and is hitting .347 with 16 home runs and 51 RBI through 61 games this season.<\/p>\n
Tulowitzki was the third Rockie to fall victim to an injury in Thursday’s setback, as outfielders Carlos Gonzalez and Dexter Fowler each went down earlier in the contest.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez took a Jordan Pacheco foul ball off the ankle while standing in the on-deck circle in the bottom of the first inning. Gonzalez left the game immediately and was diagnosed with a left foot contusion.<\/p>\n
Fowler, meanwhile, was removed from the game in the fifth inning, two frames after being hit on the right knuckle on his ring finger by a Ross Detwiler pitch.<\/p>\n
Precautionary X-rays were negative and Fowler is listed as day-to-day.<\/p>\n
The injury-riddled Rockies recalled outfielder Josh Rutledge from Triple- A Colorado Springs to replace Tulowitzki.<\/p>\n
Rutledge batted .242 with five home runs and 13 RBI over 43 games with the Rockies earlier this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Denver, CO (Sports Network) – The Colorado Rockies placed shortstop Troy Tulowitzki on the 15-day disabled list Friday with a rib fracture on his right side. Tulowitzki is expected to miss the next 4-to-6 weeks after suffering the injury while diving for a grounder in the eighth inning of Thursday’s 5-4 loss to the Washington […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[210,209,211],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-rockies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}