For the second time this season, the Tampa Bay Rays have placed reliever Pete Fairbanks on the 10-day injured list for a shoulder injury.
Fairbanks left Wednesday night’s loss to the New York Yankees in the top of the tenth inning after hitting Greg Allen with a slider, and giving up an RBI single to Aaron Judge, which ended up plating the eventual winning run.
The 27-year-old right-hander, who is 3-4 with a 3.48 earned run average and five saves in 34 relief appearances this season, also missed nearly a month early in the season with a rotator cuff strain in the same shoulder. He went on the injured list on April 9 and was activated May 5.
To take Fairbanks’ spot on the active roster, reliever Chris Mazza has been recalled from Triple-A Durham.
Steve Carney is the founder and publisher of St. Pete Nine. One of the people most associated with baseball coverage in Tampa Bay, he spent 13 seasons covering the Rays for flagship radio station WDAE, first as producer of Rays Radio broadcasts, then as beat reporter beginning in 2011. He likes new analytics and aged bourbon, and is the owner of one of the ugliest knuckleballs ever witnessed by baseball scouts.
