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Switch-pitcher Pat Venditte goes on disabled list with single shoulder injury (Big League Stew)

And just like, the baseball world is without our switch-pitching hero Pat Venditte again.

Venditte, the Oakland Athletics reliever who pitches with both his right and left arms, has been placed on the 15-day disabled list because of a right shoulder strain. He was called up last Friday and the world went gaga over baseball's first amphibious ambidextrous pitcher of the modern era.

Sorry to ruin your jokes, but yes, Venditte just hurt one of his shoulders, so he could still pitch with his left arm, but the A's wouldn't prefer it.