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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Pirates second baseman Freddy Sanchez, last year’s NL batting champion, will sit out the final five games of the season because of a shoulder injury that will require arthroscopic surgery on Friday.
The procedure will essentially repair a separated shoulder and is not expected to set back his offseason conditioning program. The shoulder is expected to be normal within six to eight weeks.
“It’s something where I’ve had to take a cortisone shot once a month or maybe six weeks,” Sanchez said following the Pirates’ 5-1 victory over Arizona on Wednesday night. “It would go away, then it would come back. They say it will take only 15 minutes, and it’s a great time to get it cleaned up. I’ll definitely be ready for my offseason workouts.”
Sanchez played Tuesday against Arizona, going 1-for-3 before leaving in the seventh inning with blurry vision. He will finish the season with a .304 average, 11 homers and 81 RBIs, a year after his .344 average was the highest by a Pirates regular since Roberto Clemente’s .345 in 1969.
Sanchez missed nearly all of spring training because of a knee injury, and got off to a slow start with a .224 average in April. His average was up to .318 on Sept. 3 before he went 6-for-38.
Despite that slump, Sanchez had a .329 average over the final seven weeks of the season. His 146 starts were the most by a Pirates second baseman since Tony Womack made 149 in 1998.
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