Austin Gomber’s season is over.
The Rockies’ left-hander, the key piece of the Nolan Arenado trade with the Cardinals, will be placed on the 60-day injured list with pars defect, the club announced Saturday.
Pars defect (or spondylolysis) is a stress fracture of the bones of the lower spine. The fracture typically occurs due to overuse.
“The way it was explained to me, it was kind of an older fracture and this was a reaction to that,” Gomber said prior to the Rockies hosting Atlanta at Coors Field. “I have probably been feeling it for three or three-and-a-half weeks.