Colorado Rockies pitcher Jorge De La Rosa. (Ben Margot, The Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA — Jorge De La Rosa was scratched off a second consecutive scheduled start Saturday because of a cut on his left middle finger, the team said. Eddie Butler will start in his place.
“I thought it would be a little quick,” De La Rosa said of his scheduled start. “I feel much, much better, but it’s still sore.”
at Cincinnati because of the cut, which he suffered before a start at Coors Field last week.
“I felt something wet. It was blood,” De La Rosa said of the cut when it showed up during warmups before his previous start. “It was hard. You saw the game. I didn’t have command.”
That led the Rockies to call up Chris Rusin from Triple-A in his place.
Butler, who was penciled in to start Monday against the Dodgers at Coors Field, will instead throw two days earlier against the Phillies.
De La Rosa had the top layer of skin around the cut sliced off with a knife earlier this week to allow it to heal.
“The cut is healing, but we don’t want a situation where it opens up again in the third inning,” manager Walt Weiss said.
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