Miami Marlins’ Sandy Alcantara has setback after rehab outing. Here’s the latest
Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara experienced forearm tightness after his rehab start with the Triple A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, the team announced Friday.
The team didn’t have an immediate update on Alcantara’s next steps. He is expected to be with the club at loanDepot park on Saturday.
“We’ll figure it out as we get more tests and more eval,” Marlins manager Skip Schumaker said Friday before Miami began a three-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Alcantara, who has been sidelined with a UCL sprain in his right elbow for about three weeks, threw four shutout innings on Thursday with the Jumbo Shrimp. He gave up just one hit — a single to top Brewers prospect Jackson Chourio — and struck out four without issuing a walk. Of his 51 pitches, 34 of which were strikes.
The outing as a whole looked great, and seemed to have Alcantara in line to return to the Marlins next week to help finish off this playoff push — until he informed the club afterward about the forearm tightness.
“That’s why you have the rehab starts,” Schumaker said. “You want to see where he’s at. He wanted to do everything he could to get back here. He’s got that warrior-type of mentality. He wasn’t going to let us hold him down if he felt like he could goo. The numbers looked good, but he came out with tightness. We’ll see what happens later.”
Alcantara initially felt arm discomfort following his start against the Washington Nationals on Sept. 3. Alcantara said he felt the pain on the final pitch he threw in that game — an 83.8 mph curveball to end the eighth inning.
He began playing catch on July 13 while the team was in Milwaukee for its four-game series against the Brewers before progressing to bullpens once the team returned to Miami, which set the stage for Thursday’s rehab start.
“We knew what we were dealing with,” Schumaker said. “That’s just the reality of it. His bullpens were good. He felt like he could go and try it. We didn’t think it was going to get any worse. You have to love where he’s at with that mentality. That’s what you want. You want a guy to help us get in the playoffs. He was going to do whatever he could if he felt like he could go ahead. If he had one percent left, he was going to give it to us. Again, we don’t know the specifics yet. We’ll get that later.”
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