Gray to IL with right elbow/forearm flexor injury:
“Josiah Gray has been placed on the 15-day injured list (right elbow and forearm flexor strain),” the Nationals wrote on X/Twitter, adding that the 26-year-old Gray was absent from his scheduled start on the away game. injured from. san francisco giants Last night.
Gray’s replacement, Joan Adon, the second of Washington’s three players at Oracle Park, is already with the club and joined the team on Monday as part of the taxi squad for this trip. Gray and his manager told reporters after the game that the problem surfaced when he started pitching again after making his second start of the season.
“After my last start against Pittsburgh, I felt like I was a little more nervous than usual, so I got over that,” Gray explained to reporters on Tuesday. After consulting with the training staff and undergoing tests, all results came back positive, but just to be safe, I underwent an MRI scan, which revealed slight tension in the flexor pronator muscle.
“So, it was kind of a build-up. It happened more or less right after I started against Pittsburgh, and that’s where we are now.”
Coach Davey Martinez said the young starter was quick to speak up when he wasn’t feeling well.
“Good. We watched him and talked to him. He said he wasn’t feeling well. He tried to play catch and we said, ‘Hey, I want you to look into this. ”, Martinez said.
“But he was great about it, he really was. You know, Josiah is going to do whatever he can to get better. But he was very, very positive. And he was like, ‘I’m going to come back. And I said to him, “I know you are, so make sure you do your due diligence and do everything the right way.” Let’s do it. Once you come back, we’ll just keep moving forward and this won’t be a problem.”
When asked how he felt, Gray said: “…It’s kind of a sluggish lingering in the muscles, the pronator flexor muscles. It’s common for pitchers, so the training staff will take care of it.”
“We’re going to give him some rest,” Martinez added. “We’re going to go through the process and check all the boxes before he goes on the mound. We want to make sure we keep everything, especially everything around him. [injury], especially the muscles, start there by strengthening those muscles again and keeping the tendons strong. ”
All things considered, Martinez and Gray said the diagnosis was positive.
“It’s a flexor strain,” the captain said.
“The tendon feels good. So he’s going to take some time off to get his strength back and get back to it as soon as possible.”
“The MRI results were positive,” Gray emphasized. “Everything was intact, the UCL was intact, all the other forearm muscles were intact, so obviously it’s a good outcome. But obviously, if you have inflammation, you want it to go away. We have to wait and have something to react to, so overall it’s a positive outlook.
“Obviously it sucks to miss time and it’s disappointing not being able to help the team and win games, but that’s part of being a pitcher and part of our job and we have to take it on the chin. I just have to get through it one day at a time.”
In the first two games of the season, including starting in the Nationals’ opener, Gray totaled 15 hits, five walks, and 13 runs allowed, slashing .405/.455/.703 in eight games. 1⁄3 inning.
On the Field at Oracle Park – NATS 5 Giants 3:
With Josiah Gray out, 25-year-old starting pitcher Joan Adon appeared in his second of three games against the Giants at Oracle Park, and the right-hander held the home team to just three hits and three walks in four innings. Ta. He had two strikeouts on 72 pitches, of which pitchers only had two strikeouts, but picked up 15 called strikes (spread over four pitches).
CJ Abrams, who returned to action after missing three games with a bone bruise in his left pinky finger, got the start with a two-run home run that hit 423 feet and gave the Nats a 2-1 lead after two games. Abrams’ RBI single in the 5th inning made it 3-1, and the Giants came back in the 6th inning to cut the lead to 2 runs. In the 7th inning, Trey Lipscomb hit a sac fly for a run and Riley Adams scored an RBI. Ta. He scored another point in the 8th inning, making it 5-3.
After Hunter Harvey, who returned to the mound with two outs in the 8th inning, missed a line drive from his gloved hand, Kyle Finnegan took over and returned to the mound in the 9th inning, working hard to get in and out with the bases loaded. They put their strength at home with a 6-4-3 DP that ends the game with no-out jams, weak ground balls, and rally killers. The Nationals won 5-3.
