It's been a long road to recovery for BlueJays pitcher Matt Shoemaker. But his first start of the season was also the first step towards getting back on track (ArdenZwelling)
went seven innings was one year, nine months, and 20 days ago — June 9, 2017. He was in Houston pitching for the Los Angeles Angels and he was absolutely dealing. A couple runs scored in the second, but then Shoemaker threw up zeros through the sixth, at one point retiring 13 in a row. That roll was snapped by a Marwin Gonzalez single, followed by an Alex Bregman home run that wrapped around the left field foul pole.
“It was different, you know?” Shoemaker says. “It wasn’t that bad, but it was definitely bothering me. We thought it was going to be, like, a one-to-two week thing — max.” He returned to the mound in 2018, but so did the forearm soreness. It turned out nothing had been fixed at all. The real problem was a split in his pronator tendon — again, super frustrating — which, once identified, sent him back under the knife for a nerve decompression and to repair the tendon. That kept him out for five months.
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