Dodgers pitcher Dustin May won’t return this season after present process esophageal surgery, the team announced Saturday.
According to an announcement, May was at dinner Wednesday night time when he felt a “sudden pain” in his throat and abdomen that didn’t dissipate as soon as he bought dwelling.
After contacting medical workers, May went into surgery and is “mending well,” in accordance to an individual with information of the state of affairs not approved to communicate publicly. The process, nonetheless, will sideline May for the remainder of this season, dashing the Dodgers’ hopes of getting the pitcher — who has been on the injured listing all yr following elbow surgery final July — again on the mound.
The surgery got here as a shock for the 26-year-old, who had been throwing bullpen classes on the membership’s complicated in Arizona since May.
As lately as late June, supervisor Dave Roberts had known as the right-hander’s progress “promising” — seemingly making him a possible late-season addition for a pitching workers that has handled myriad accidents. Instead, May’s esophagus surgery serves as the newest surprising blow to the Dodgers’ pitching plans.
A 3rd-round draft choose in 2016, May has been an impression pitcher for the Dodgers when wholesome, with a 3.10 ERA in 5 seasons. But accidents — which necessitated a 2021 Tommy John surgery and final yr’s flexor tendon process — repeatedly have derailed the flame-thrower, limiting him to 20 begins since 2021.
