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Clay Buchholz likely done for the season

In a remarkable showing of deja vu, the Phillies have likely lost a starting pitcher in April for the second consecutive season.

Clay Buchholz underwent surgery Tuesday on a torn flexor tendon in his pitching arm.

It’s likely, say reports, that he’ll pitch again in 2017.

Well.

Maybe we should compose a poem for ol’ Clay:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
In the words of Scandal (with Patty Smyth),
Clay, “goodbye to you.”

Zach Eflin is taking the ball tonight against the Mets. He’s pitching in place of Buchholz.

Tim Malcolm

Tim 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.