Rudy Seanez has been placed on the 15-day DL with shoulder inflammation. He joins Pedro Feliz and Tom Gordon on the DL, and suddenly the Phillies are nicked, bruised and battered.
In his place the Phils have called up Les Walrond, a 31-year-old lefty Minor League journeyman. Walrond has been with the AAA Lehigh Valley IronPigs this season, and struck out 17 batters against Louisville on July 6.
From Muskogee, Okla., Walrond’s full name is Leslie Dale Walrond. He had two cups of coffee in his career, with Kansas City and the Cubs. Both times he wasn’t that effective. Drafted by Saint Louis, he’s mainly played in the minors since 1998, and this year for Lehigh Valley was 5-7 with a 2.61 ERA and 95 strikeouts in 103.1 innings. Not sure if he can fill out the left-handed specialist role — lefties have a .252 average against him, righties are hitting .225.
Tim MalcolmTim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.
