Cliff Pennington was diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy on Monday, and by the sixth inning, he was having trouble seeing because he couldn’t close his left eye and it kept tearing up. “It feels like I went to the dentist and the whole left side of my face is numb,” he said.
Pennington, who was replaced in the sixth by Eric Sogard, is hopeful that the usually temporary condition, in which a nerve causes facial paralysis, clears up within a day or two. He was put on medication immediately, which is expected to shorten the duration.
“I was trying to play, but I couldn’t see the ball very well,” Pennington said. “I didn’t want to cost the team. As soon as I can blink, I can play.”
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Pennington’s career-high hitting streak came to an end at 15 games.
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Posted: August 02, 2011 at 07:49 AM |
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: August 02, 2011 at 08:38 AM (#3890941)Next up for the A's: Kurt Suzuki contracts leprosy, Conor Jackson gets gout and Scott Sizemore has a bad case of the vapours.
I'll think about next season's curse next season!
Giants' Pablo Sandoval has Bell's taco.
Turner's a ginger, so he can't be the most generic player. His wikipedia page also refers to him as Justin "the Machine" Turner, and the only other place google sees any reference to the Machine is his own facebook page. I'm force to conclude that he edits his own wikipedia page.
Turner is innocent of this particular sin. The nickname was added on June 5, 2011 by an anonymous user with an IP address in Sicklerville, NJ, which is southeast of Philadelphia. The page was reverted that day, then the anonymous user made the change again. The second revision was made at 11:57 PM on June 5, 2011, and I believe that time is GMT. This means it was 7:57 Eastern time, and Turner had an 8:05 home game against the Braves that day. He went 1-5 with an RBI.
okay, the fact that you knew this is just ... odd.
Just a matter of spending a minute with the revision section on the Wikipedia page.
They don't call me "The Machine" for nothing.
What, Valley Fever wasn't enough for the lad?
LaRussa left at the end of that year, so it wasn't all bad.
Okay then, it's Ryan Roberts.
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