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- Updated: May 13, 2016
MILWAUKEE — His audience amounted to a few dozen fans munching hamburgers in the restaurant overlooking the bullpen at Miller Park, but that didn’t matter to reliever Will Smith, who emerged from his first mound session in months as though he had just recorded the final out of the World Series.
Smith threw 25 pitches off the bullpen mound in his most significant test since tearing his LCL — a ligament on the outside of his right knee — while taking off his shoe following a Spring Training outing in late March. The Brewers remain hopeful that he will be able to return to active duty without undergoing surgery.
“Started off maybe 60, 70 percent to begin with, and then once I got a sweat going, we kind of opened it up,” Smith said. “Everything was there. The command was just a little off, which I assumed would happen. But my last four or five were really good. I think my last …
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