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ATLANTA — The San Diego Padres know they won’t be getting many innings from their first pitcher on Sunday. The Atlanta Braves hope that isn’t the case with their starter as well.
Atlanta right-hander Julio Teheran will make his first start since being activated from the disabled list Saturday to face San Diego http://www.steelersauthorizedshops.com/authentic-james-washington-jersey , which will use a bullpen game in the finale of the four-game series at SunTrust Park.
The Braves (41-29) increased their lead in the National League East to 2 1/2 games with a 1-0 victory on Saturday that guaranteed the Padres (34-39) wouldn’t win a sixth consecutive series.
Teheran (4-4, 4.31 ERA) came out after one batter in the fifth inning of a loss at San Diego on June 4 because of a right thumb contusion and hopes the rest during his DL stint will help him regain some of his lost velocity.
The 27-year-old former all-star gave up three homers while losing his third straight start. His average fastball velocity this season is 89.2 mph compared with 91.4 mph last year.
Even before jamming a finger while batting, Teheran’s fastballs were mostly in the 85-87 mph range against the Padres, and three long balls raised his season total to 14.
“My arm has been sore,” Teheran admitted for the first time last Sunday while the Braves were in Los Angeles playing the Dodgers. “Obviously as a pitcher you have games where you don’t feel 100 percent. This year for me it’s been kind of up and down.”
Teheran is 1-3 with a 6.11 ERA and eight home runs allowed in 28 innings during his past five starts.
“Whenever you’re fighting through soreness, one day you feel good and the next day you don’t. You still go out there and compete,” he said. “I don’t think it’s a big deal. But working on it, we’ll see if this (next) couple of months we’ll get my velo back.”
Right-handed reliever Matt Strahm (1-2, 2.55) will get his fourth spot start for the Padres as manager Andy Green turns to his bullpen to fill in the rotation spot left open by the hip injury to rookie left-hander Joey Lucchesi.
Strahm has a 1.23 ERA in 7 1/3 innings as a starter after throwing three perfect innings in the Padres’ victory over the Cardinals in St. Louis on Tuesday.
Submarine right-hander Adam Cimber followed Strahm with one-hit ball for three scoreless innings and the Padres won their second straight bullpen game after a victory over the Braves on June 6 in San Diego.
“It’s got to be tough as a hitter,” Green said. “First, you have a lefty slinger throwing 95-96 (mph). Next at-bat Youth Derwin James Jersey , you’ve got a drop-down righty coming from underneath. It’s just two radically different looks, and it plays well off each other and keeps guys uncomfortable. By the time you’re up a third time, you’re facing a back-end reliever.”
Strahm pitched a perfect inning in relief against the Braves two days before his start in San Diego, when he allowed a first-inning homer by Freddie Freeman but only one other hit in 2 1/3 innings of the 3-1 win by the Padres.
Teheran’s 11-4 loss in San Diego gave him a 4-3 record and 4.13 ERA in nine career starts against the Padres.
Steven Nyman crashed in downhill training on the Kandahar course for the second year in a row.
This time, though, the American skier escaped relatively unharmed.
Nyman had to end his season early last year when he crashed in downhill practice on Jan. 27 last year. On Friday, he went into the net before pulling himself up and skiing down the mountain. He said he felt a tweak in his right knee.
He will skip Saturday’s World Cup event, the last downhill race before the Olympics next month.
”He’s just going to rest his body for the Olympics. Eyes on the prize,” United States ski team press officer Megan Harrod told The Associated Press.
Nyman wasn’t sure exactly what had caused him to skid off.
”Maybe I pushed too hard at one point. It’s kind of a peely snow – it’s hard underneath but then a wet layer on top. I think I pushed too hard and just kind of did the splits. It was weird,” he told AP.
The incident brought back memories of Nyman’s accident in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last year, when he was having the fastest run of the day until he crashed off a jump and tore his left knee. He had to be airlifted off the course.
Nyman Youth Uchenna Nwosu Jersey , 26th in practice on Thursday, has been working hard to get back this season, placing 41st at a downhill in Val Gardena, Italy, in December, then 28th in Wengen, Switzerland, two weeks ago. He was 15th in Kitzbuehel, Austria, last week and 32nd in the super-G the day before.
Nyman’s girlfriend, Charlotte Moats Youth Terrelle Pryor Sr. Jersey , gave birth to the couple’s first daughter, Nell, last June, and she played a huge role in helping with his recovery from left-knee surgery. He said before that she helped prevent him from over-training and pushing too hard to get back too quickly.
But time on the slopes is what counts now with the Olympics only two weeks away. Nyman is captain of the United States downhill squad.
”I haven’t really skied all too much this year, so to do well tomorrow would be a huge boost of confidence,” Nyman said before he pulled out. ”Kitzbuehel was a huge confidence-boost as well.”
Nyman has 11 World Cup podium finishes but the last of his three victories was in Val Gardena in December 2014. His last podium was on the same course two years later.
Asked if the political situation and tensions in the region were having any effect on his preparations for the Pyeongchang Games, Nyman said he was learning to shut a lot of things out.
”I live over here all winter. I rent a place in Innsbruck (Austria) for three months out of the year, so to be over here and not be super-fluent in German, you kind of learn to not listen to a lot of things,” Nyman said. ”It’s pretty nice.”
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