ATLANTA (AP) -Braves reliever Peter Moylan may still need reconstructive elbow surgery, but he was feeling a little better after three hours of stretching and exercising before Friday’s game against the Dodgers.
He’ll stick with this program for at least another week, then do some tossing to see how his elbow feels. The Braves say he’ll need season-ending surgery if the rehab doesn’t work.
“If you had asked me yesterday, I would have said no chance,” Moylan said. “But having treatment today and feeling how it feels now, there’s a chance. There’s at least a chance. If there wasn’t, I’d say, ‘Go ahead and have surgery.”’
The right-hander apparently has a bone spur imbedded in a ligament, which he said “feels like a spear in there.” The injury came when he had just started filling in as the closer for Rafael Soriano, who went on the disabled list with a tender elbow.
“It crushed me,” Moylan said. “I was so amped up, so ready to pitch, I guess I was too amped up. I was throwing harder than I’ve thrown all year. The crazy thing was, I was hitting my spots better than I have all year, too. It was the best I’ve thrown in I can’t remember how long.
“And then to come off and walk in the next day and not be able to straighten my arm, I’m thinking, what in hell is going on here?”
In other Braves news, Tom Glavine intends to start on Saturday after leaving his last start with a sore hamstring.
The lefty threw a normal bullpen session two days ahead of the start, and is confident that his hamstring will hold up. Glavine was schedule to start Friday, but the Braves moved him back a day to get him a little extra time to recover.
“I never envisioned a hamstring problem, especially as flexible as I am and as loose as I was,” he said. “Hopefully it was just one of those freak things. I’ve done my treatment, I’ve done my exercises. Everything seems to be normal.”
The 42-year-old Glavine has never been on the disabled list.
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