The hard-throwing right-hander pitches a very encouraging seven shutout innings in a 2-1 loss to the Diamondbacks. Can he be better than he was pre-Tommy John surgery?
LOS ANGELES — Remember what Dustin May looked like early in the 2021 season, before his elbow betrayed him?
May threw 84 pitches against the Diamondbacks, 56 for strikes, hitting 100 mph with two first-inning pitches and later settling into a 96-98 mph groove with his four-seamer. But only one of those fastballs accounted for a swing and miss; he had eight for the game, half of them finishing off his four strikeouts, and three came on sinkers, two on curveballs and two on cutters, according to Baseball Savant.
I00t has been a circuitous route for May to this point, one that was derailed on that Sunday afternoon in Milwaukee two years ago when he walked off the mound with uncertainty. The passion is still there, and May said it had never left. There was that skip off the mound after he fanned Geraldo Perdomo in the fifth – the first time he’s done that, May said.
May said he was ready to make his case to return to the mound for the seventh, but Roberts didn’t see any reason why he shouldn’t continue, because of the low pitch count.
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