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Add Joel Zumaya's elbow to the list of bizarre injuries to athletes, alongside Mike Remlinger's finger smash via Lazyboy, Sammy Sosa's sneeze-induced back strain, and the fondue pot spill that took out the Jacksonville Jaguars kicker & punter back in 2002.
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HUMMIN' SLOWED BY STRUMMIN': Guitar video game hurt Zumaya's arm
December 14, 2006
BY JON PAUL MOROSI
Detroit FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER
The Tigers are satisfied they won't see a recurrence of the right wrist and forearm inflammation that sidelined Joel Zumaya for three games of the American League Championship Series.
Why? Club president and general manager Dave Dombrowski told WXYT-AM (1270) on Wednesday the team had concluded Zumaya's injury resulted from playing a video game, not from his powerful throwing motion.
"That was probably what was taking place," Dombrowski later told the Free Press.
Zumaya, 22, was known to play "Guitar Hero," a PlayStation 2 game in which a player uses a guitar-shaped controller to simulate the performance of popular songs.
During the radio interview, Dombrowski said the Tigers' athletic training staff discovered that Zumaya's forearm pain was more consistent with the action of a guitar player than a baseball pitcher. The Tigers asked Zumaya to stop playing the video game, and he did. Zumaya then pitched pain-free during the World Series, and went 0-1 with a 3.00 ERA in three appearances.
"He felt fine in the World Series, to tell you the truth," said Steve Springer, one of Zumaya's representatives. "I didn't even think twice about it."
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C0R ADD Version: Guitar Hero more dangerous than pitching at 100 MPH. Joel Zamaya likes to play air guitar.
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