The news was broke by Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr., who admitted that's what the organization thought the issue was all along.
"We’d only like to have him miss a couple of starts but if he has to miss 3-4 starts then that is what it will be," Amaro said. "Hopefully it will be shorter than that."
in the same press conference, Amaro Jr. said second basemen Chase Utley was progressing well, but had no update on first basemen Ryan Howard.
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The lefty also said he is improving and should return to his normal spot in the rotation after his 15-day stint on the DL runs its course.
Via CSN Philly:
"We were debating on whether to just miss a start or go on the 15-day DL," he said. "So we erred on the side of caution and played it safe. I can't really argue with that.
"The past couple of days it was pretty sore. But today it felt better than yesterday. We're heading in the right direction. Hopefully I'll miss just a couple of starts and it will be back to normal."
Lee threw 102 pitches against the San Francisco Giants while throwing 10 shutout innings, but does not consider an over-sized workload to be part of his injury issues.
"That didn't matter," Lee said of the length of his outing. "I felt fine the whole time. I threw 102 pitches. I've thrown more pitches than that in five or six innings. I don't think that had anything to do with it."
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