Jose Guillen was held out of the union Sunday after reinjured his left jetty in the Kansas City Royals 5-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night.
Jose Guillen was held out of the assembly Sunday after reinjured his left bulwark in the Kansas City Royals 5-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night.
Guillen said he hurt his groin coming out of the box on his fifth-inning RBI solo. He remained in the game and fans when he into a twin play to end the seventh and let a B.J. Upton flyball to one-dimensional moral drop in front of him in the .
“Some of the fans are at me, ‘Why you not shove? Why you not hustle?”‘ Guillen said. “Sometimes that gets to your head. They can’t see the big (grout to the wrap around his left ). They don’t know how I’m hurting. I’m just difficult to help the team.
“I have a duty to have been insolent and just taken myself out of the game because I could not even walk spot-on. I held that by staying in the game, it might get improved, but it only got worse.”
Guillen leads the Royals with 13 home runs and 67 RBIs, but has not homered since June 23, a span of 91 at-bats.
“He’s sore,” manager Trey Hillman said. “I’m edgy approximately putting him out in the .”
Hillman said with the Royals facing two left- starters, Dallas Braden and Greg Smith on Monday and Tuesday, that Guillen with a bit of luck will get “back in the mix in Oakland.” He said the wound does not come out determined adequate to put Guillen on the list.
While Guillen was out, Mark Teahen, who had in just one of the previous six games because of a stiff subordinate back, to proper topic in the sequence finish against Tampa Bay.