Rockies right-hander Jair Jurrjens struggled Friday in his first start in 13 months, allowing eight runs while failing to make it out of the fifth inning, and he had even more problems dealing with the altitude in Colorado.
Jurrjens was taken to the hospital during the game for what the Rockies called “breathing problems.” He’s since been released from the hospital and manager Walt Weiss told Nick Groke of the Denver Post that doctors think it had more to do with conditioning and reacting to the altitude than anything serious:
Everything is fine. He checked out all right. People react differently when they get here, with the altitude and everything. That was part of it. But everything was moving pretty fast for him. All of a sudden he was here and he was starting in a big-league game again. I’m sure things were spinning.
His next scheduled turn in the rotation would be Wednesday afternoon versus the Padres, at Coors Field, although it’s not clear if the Rockies will give Jurrjens another start considering how bad he looked in his first outing.
