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Article: YANKEES BLISTER THE REDS\ GRAVES WILL MISS NEXT START WITH BAD FINGER.(Sports)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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- June 6, 2003
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Byline: Tony Jackson Post staff reporter
In the figurative sense, Danny Graves has never been thin-skinned. In the course of saving 129 games during his five seasons as the Reds' closer, he also blew a few, and whenever he did he never blamed anyone but himself and never complained when fans or the media criticized him.
In the literal sense, Graves apparently is very thin-skinned, which is why the blisters that tend to develop on the fingers of his pitching hand have become such a concern.
One of them came to a head, both literally and figuratively, in the third inning of Thursday night's game, a 10-2 loss to the New York Yankees before 42,282 ...