Recovering Walker ready for rehab start

CHICAGO — Taijuan Walker will fly back to Seattle on Sunday and start a rehab game on Monday night for Triple-A Tacoma as the Mariners work to get the 23-year-old right-hander back into their rotation.

Walker has been on the 15-day disabled list since July 6 with tendinitis in his right arch, and the hope is the extended rest will allow him to pitch pain-free after he struggled with the issue over a four-start stretch, in which he totaled just 18 2/3 innings with a 4.34 ERA before being shut down.

Walker threw 45 pitches in a simulated game on Wednesday in Pittsburgh, and he will face Albuquerque in a 7:05 p.m. PT game Monday at Cheney Stadium.

“Hopefully he’ll get five innings, depending on where the pitch count is and if he has an extended inning somewhere in the middle there,” manager Scott Servais said. “But that’s what we’re hopeful for, and then [we’ll] reevaluate coming out of that as …

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