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Ryan Dempster Breaks Toe Celebrating, May Miss a Month

Posted Jul 07, 2009 7:41PM By Pat Lackey (RSS feed)

Filed Under: Cubs, NL Central, MLB Injuries

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Everything seemed to be going swimmingly for the Cubs. They were coming off of three wins in four games against the Brewers over the weekend, which threw the Brewers into some turmoil, and the Cardinals just received word that Mark DeRosa will head to the DL with a wrist injury.

The other shoe dropped Tuesday afternoon, though, when the Cubs learned that Ryan Dempster will miss his scheduled start and several more after breaking his toe leaping out of the dugout celebrating the Cubs' win over Milwaukee on Sunday. Dempster says he's going to miss his next three starts (two before the All-Star break and one after) but the Cubs' trainer says he could miss up to a month, which would probably mean another start or two after that.

Dempster described the injury to the Chicago Tribune (link above the fold):
"Sunday after the game I was coming out of the dugout and stepping over the top of the railing there, I was sitting up on the ledge, and I caught my left foot on the rail as I was coming over and it just spun me around and slammed me into the ground. When I did it, I thought I just ripped my nail back on my foot. Unfortunately, the result wasn't very funny. If you ask Derrek Lee, he thought it was pretty funny, because the first person I saw when I looked up was D-Lee, and he was laughing. I'm sure it looked hysterical from his angle."
Carlos Zambrano will take his place in the rotation on short rest and Kevin Hart will be called up from Triple-A Iowa to start Wednesday and presumably fill out the rotation until Dempster returns. Hart's made a few uninspiring appearances with the Cubs over the past three years, but he's been solid with Iowa this year, racking up 57 strikeouts in 52 1/3 innings, though he's only made six starts in 22 appearances with them.

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