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09/01/08 3:52 PM ET
Sheets leaves with tightness in groin
Righty allows just two hits over five innings before departing
By JR Radcliffe / Special to MLB.com
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The right-hander needed just 54 pitches to navigate five innings, allowing no runs on two hits, with one walk. He appeared in relatively comfortable spirits on television monitors when pinch-hitter Joe Dillon took Sheets' spot in the lineup leading off the sixth.
Sheets lowered his season ERA to 2.96 in the performance, and he left in line for his 13th win, which would remarkably represent a career high for the four-time All-Star. An assortment of injuries, including inner ear, back, hamstring, groin and finger ailments, have plagued Sheets since a banner 2004, in which he posted a 2.70 ERA and an 8.25:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
JR Radcliffe is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
