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Yeesh. It sounds like even the great Stephen Strasburg isn’t impervious to feeling the burn a little more than is usually preferable. In a somewhat mysterious episode on Tuesday afternoon, Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson told the team’s beat writers that Strasburg’s poor pitching performance was due in part to some “Hot Stuff” that “got to the wrong place.” How the tingling analgesic ointment reached somewhere it shouldn’t — or exactly what area of sensitive skin it came in contact with — the 69-year-old skipper didn’t know, or at least wouldn’t say. But coupled with a damp day at Nationals Park, it apparently had a negative effect on Strasburg who gave up four runs in four labored innings of work during Washington’s 6-1 loss to the San Diego Padres. It was the first loss of the year for the Nationals ace. From the Associated Press: ”It was on his shoulder and evidently — I don’t know how it got to where it got, but it was uncomfortable, to say the least,” Johnson said with a chuckle. Asked about it, Strasburg said: ‘”I’m going to keep that in the clubhouse.’”
Yeesh. It sounds like even the great Stephen Strasburg isn’t impervious to feeling the burn a little more than is usually preferable. In a somewhat mysterious episode on Tuesday afternoon, Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson told the team’s beat writers that Strasburg’s poor pitching performance was due in part to some “Hot Stuff” that “got to the wrong place.” How the tingling analgesic ointment reached somewhere it shouldn’t — or exactly what area of sensitive skin it came in contact with — the 69-year-old skipper didn’t know, or at least wouldn’t say. But coupled with a damp day at Nationals Park, it apparently had a negative effect on Strasburg who gave up four runs in four labored innings of work during Washington’s 6-1 loss to the San Diego Padres. It was the first loss of the year for the Nationals ace. From the Associated Press: ”It was on his shoulder and evidently — I don’t know how it got to where it got, but it was uncomfortable, to say the least,” Johnson said with a chuckle. Asked about it, Strasburg said: ‘”I’m going to keep that in the clubhouse.’”
