Los Angeles – Dustin May took the mound for Los Angeles Dodgers a changed man.
Make his first departure in the major league since May 17, 2023, he granted a single blow and an unable to five rounds in the 3-1 victory of the Dodgers on the Braves of Atlanta on Tuesday evening. He removed six and walked three.
“Even if it would have been wrong, I would have always had a good time being back on a big league mound,” said May. “It literally meant the world for me just to be back on the mound because eight months ago, I did not know if I would be.”
May spent all last season to rehabilitate a torn flexor tendon in his right arm and a potentially fatal esophageal tear after eating a salad at dinner with his wife in Arizona. A piece of lettuce was caught in his throat and can sip water trying to erase it.
He felt a painful feeling in his throat and his stomach, and later learned that the lettuce had perforated her esophageal tube.
“It is a kind of one of these stories that you realize, but it was really true,” said teammate Mookie Betts. “God just worked his magic.”
May have undergone an emergency surgery the same night, the doctors later telling him that he had looked for medical care just in time.
“After the esophagus, it occurred, it was like total reset,” he said. “I can’t do anything for the moment, so playing baseball was in the back itself. I was just trying to get in good health, get home and be able to see the next morning.”
The 6 -feet 6 -inch right -hander nicknamed Big Red closed his eyes and tilted his head to the obscuring sky before heating on Tuesday.
“I thanked the Lord for the opportunity to return,” he said. “There has been a lot of prayer and a lot of devotion to him in the past two years of my life and I attribute all my success to him.”
The first launch of May was a lead at 96 MPH for Brave strikers, Michael Harris II, for a strike. He leaned back his head again and looked at the sky. Harris struck the eye.
Up came Austin Riley, who went downhill on five throws. Matt Olson was the next one and took a third strike called. May jumped the mound and was welcomed with High-Fives from his teammates in the canoe.
“It means that the world knowing that my things are still playing,” he said. “It was good to bring out the big league strikers in a big league match.”
The noisy crowd of 50,182 welcomed it again.
“It was great,” he said.
May seemed to induce a double end of the round game with two in the second, but Betts completed the ball and threw it at the start to leave a race score. It was Betts’ first error at the stop stop this season.
“I didn’t have a good grip on it,” said Betts. “Just a stupid game.”
May’s emotions ran as hot as his red hair flowing when he came to the majors.
“Each land, everything would be super high or super low,” he said.
The death of death calmed him.
“The simple fact of staying a little more high-end throughout life in general has been one of my greatest things probably in the past six months,” he said.
In 2023, May experienced 4-1 in nine starts with an MPM of 2.63, 34 stick withdrawals and 16 steps before undergoing Tommy John review surgery.
He did not know that it would be the least of his problems. And he never thought that eating a salad would threaten his life.
“There was not really very brilliant light at the end of the tunnel at the time,” he said. “I had to scratch and retire and find my way.”
