LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers are headed to their twelfth consecutive postseason look whereas All-Star pitcher Tyler Glasnow tries to determine one other elbow damage that ended his first season in Los Angeles.
The 31-year-old right-hander stated Friday his elbow sprain did not require any additional testing and he is assured he will not want surgical procedure.
“It is extraordinarily irritating,” Glasnow stated. “I wished to come back right here to win a World Sequence and pitch within the postseason.”
He went on the injured listing Aug. 16 due to elbow tendinitis. Glasnow was working his means again when he threw a couple of warmup pitches in a simulated recreation in Atlanta final week earlier than “one thing was simply not proper in my arm” and shut it down.
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“Simply knew it will have been dumb to maintain throwing on it,” he stated.
Glasnow had Tommy John surgical procedure in 2022 after which made 21 begins and pitched 120 innings final season with the Tampa Bay Rays.
This season, he bettered these marks with profession highs of twenty-two begins and 134 innings pitched earlier than making his closing begin on Aug. 11. He had 11.3 strikeouts per 9 innings.
Glasnow’s supply mechanics are sound, he stated. However the 6-foot-8-inch pitcher stated he believed his lengthy extension places a whole lot of stress on the arm.
“I am simply attempting to determine one thing to get my arm to a great spot to attempt to relieve a number of the stress in my elbow,” he stated. “I assume I am simply attempting to determine all that out and implement it by the offseason and subsequent season.”
