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DeSclafani on latest bullpen: ‘Best I’ve felt’
- Updated: May 17, 2016
CLEVELAND — Reds pitcher Anthony DeSclafani threw in the bullpen again on Tuesday and walked away from the session — more confident than before — that he might have finally put the ordeal of a strained left oblique behind him.
“It’s definitely the best I’ve felt,” DeSclafani said after he returned to the visitors’ clubhouse at Progressive Field. “I think it’s to the point now where it’s healed and recovered more. It’s good now. I don’t think it will get irritated.”
DeSclafani threw 40 pitches in the mound session, his second one since being shut down following a setback in what was expected to be his final rehab assignment start late last month. He also threw on Saturday in Philadelphia.
The throwing session was broken up into 20-pitch “innings” with a five-minute break in between. It was done as a way to further test the oblique.
“I think what it was before was the ups and downs [that caused the setback],” DeSclafani said. “I’d get hot and cool down, get hot again and cool down. By the time the fifth inning comes, you’ve warmed up …
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