The 2024 MLB season just isn’t going Blake Snell’s way.
The Giants starter left Sunday’s game after 4 ⅔ innings against the Yankees and was revealed to be dealing with tightness in his left groin that could land him back on the injured list, according to the Mercury News.
Snell was only in his third start since returning from the IL, when he missed 25 games due to a left adductor strain.
“We’ll see what the MRI will tell us and go from there,” Snell told reporters after the game.
Snell will undergo further imaging on Thursday, though he also said that it felt “the same” as the groin injury he dealt with earlier this season.
“It’s definitely a bummer,” Snell said, according to the Mercury News. “Frustrating. But you’ve gotta look to what’s next, attack that and get back on the field.”
Snell gave up three runs on five hits while striking out seven batters in what ended up being a 7-5 win for the Yankees.
Snell has been dealing with injuries all season long and waited to make his Giants debut until the ballclub’s fourth series of the year.
He started in just three games before his first injury kept him off the mound for a month.
The Giants signed the lefty to a two-year, $62 million deal in March.
This season he has an ERA of 9.51 after Sunday’s game.
He has yet to record a win this season nor has he gone longer than five full innings since he arrived in San Francisco.
“I don’t think he’s moving around worse than last time,” Giants manager Bob Melvin said, according to ESPN. “But I don’t know how it’s not an IL [situation].”
The Giants travel to Arizona on Monday for a three-game series against the Diamondbacks.
