Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright suffered a bruise on his upper arm from where a line drive struck him during Monday's season opener against the Diamondbacks, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Wainwright said he felt tightening in his upper arm, but he refused to blame the "battle scar" bruise for Arizona rallying for the win.
"I started coming out of my delivery a little bit and everything did change from there, but that would be easy to blame (the liner), and I won’t,” said Wainwright, who allowed four runs on 11 hits in six innings. "That’s all a cop-out. The reason is the execution wasn’t there when it needed to be."