ATLANTA – Five days after the Braves launcher, Spencer Strider, returned to the mound after a year -long recovery after elbow surgery, he returned to the list of injuries on Monday, this time for an hamstiff injury.
Strider set out his right-wing hamstring by playing Catch on Monday afternoon, the brave said. They did not explain how it happened, but Strider informed a team official shortly after the incident that he would not be able to start on Tuesday against the Cardinals of Saint-Louis.
He was placed on the 15-day IL, rear until April 18 and was sent to obtain an MRI on Monday afternoon.
The Braves said they were still discussing who would replace strider in Tuesday’s match and said it could partly depend on how the opening of the series on Monday evening took place. They called the right-hander Michael Peterson of Triple-A Gwinnett to take the place of the Strider list, and Peterson could be an option to start on Tuesday.
Strider, the major league leader in victories and stick withdrawals in 2023, only made two departures in 2024 before undergoing surgery of the internal bracelet to repair a damaged UCL in its pitching elbow. He also underwent Tommy John surgery on the elbow in 2019 when he was still at university in Clemson.
He made his highly anticipated return to the major league mound on Wednesday in Toronto, launching five rounds and granting five strokes, two points and a walk with five sticks in the stick in a 3-1 defeat.
The brave have already lost one of their three best starters, Reynaldo López, to a shoulder injury which should keep it away until the least September, otherwise all season. López underwent arthroscopic surgery on April 8 after taking a single start.
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