{"id":905236,"date":"2026-09-22T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905236\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:34:34","slug":"giants-blade-tidwell-exits-start-with-elbow-discomfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905236\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants’ Blade Tidwell Exits Start With Elbow Discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants are dealing with yet another injury. Blade Tidwell<\/a> made an early exit from tonight\u2019s 5-2 victory over Minnesota. Manager Tony Vitello told reporters postgame that the right-hander felt elbow discomfort and will go for further testing on Tuesday (via Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a> and Susan Slusser of The San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Tidwell was out to a nice start this evening, with a Brooks Lee<\/a> solo homer his only blemish across 3 1\/3 innings. He spiked a breaking ball to Ryan Jeffers<\/a> in the top of the fourth and grimaced, then immediately signaled to the dugout. While it\u2019s too soon to know whether there\u2019s any ligament damage, that\u2019ll obviously be the main concern until he gets the testing results.<\/p>\n

San Francisco acquired Tidwell from the Mets last summer as part of their return for\u00a0Tyler Rogers<\/a>. The University of Tennessee product reunited with his college coach when the Giants hired Vitello over the winter. Tidwell got some run with the major league club early in the season as a reliever. He spent the next couple months in Triple-A but has held a rotation spot since the Giants shipped out\u00a0Tyler Mahle<\/a> and\u00a0Robbie Ray<\/a> at the deadline.<\/p>\n

Tidwell has worked 56 2\/3 innings of 4.45 ERA ball in his first MLB look of note. He has fanned just under 20% of opponents against a 9% walk rate. While hardly a dominant performance, he\u2019s done enough to hold a spot in a Giants rotation that has been hit hard by injury.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has already lost three early-career starters to elbow surgeries. Hayden Birdsong<\/a> required Tommy John surgery during Spring Training, while\u00a0Trevor McDonald<\/a> and\u00a0Carson Whisenhunt<\/a> went down after the All-Star Break. Veteran righty\u00a0Adrian Houser<\/a> also suffered a season-ending flexor strain in August, though there\u2019s nothing to suggest he\u2019s facing surgical rehab.<\/p>\n

The Giants are down five starters overall, as they also opted to shut\u00a0Logan Webb<\/a> down last week. (Webb has a blister and presumably would\u2019ve pitched through it had the team been competitive.) Tidwell figures to join them even if imaging comes back clean, as there\u2019s no upside in bringing him back for what would\u2019ve been his final start this weekend against the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

Anthony Molina<\/a> and\u00a0Cesar Perdomo<\/a> will start the final two games of the Minnesota series. The Giants can run some combination of\u00a0Landen Roupp<\/a>,\u00a0Matt Wilkinson<\/a> and Yunior Marte<\/a> for the Dodgers series. If they do place Tidwell on the injured list to bring up another arm, he\u2019d incredibly be their 24th player (and 14th pitcher) on the big league IL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants are dealing with yet another injury. Blade Tidwell made an early exit from tonight\u2019s 5-2 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[160432,49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-905236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-blade-tidwell","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}