“It feels f—ing great. Great. The best.” Justin Verlander has his first WorldSeries win. More importantly, though, he’s back on the mound after having Tommy John surgery and logging 3,000 career innings, Tom Verducci writes
in World Series Game 5, the first thing they did was stuff Verlander into a laundry cart, wheel him into the shower room at Citizens Bank Ballpark and salute him with what’s known in the baseball world as a Rookie Shower, the traditional dumping of liquids and foodstuffs on a rookie upon a first win.Verlander had nowhere near his best stuff in Thursday’s Game 5, but he “survived” to secure his first World Series win and put the Astros one win from a championship.
Meister performed the surgery Sept. 30, 2020. The recovery would keep Verlander out of two postseason runs for Houston. “I did six, seven hundred hours of body work,” Verlander said. “My arm was the easiest part of my rehab, to be honest with you. I was trying to unwind 15 years of stress on my body. That was really my goal.
“Of course, there are doubts,” Verlander said. “But you try to fight those thoughts. In my mind, it’s an 89% return to previous form. My previous form was Cy Young caliber in 2019. To me, it was,“Additionally, I’ve had two other major surgeries to my core before that and my body responded really well to that. My body was able to use it, go through the process. I didn’t have too much scar tissue. I didn’t get too tight. I didn’t have issues with it.
“It was kind of like that the entire process. I couldn’t go at it too hard. I had to follow the regimen, but every step of the way it felt remarkably like me.”“I’ve heard people say it feels foreign or different and you have to re-find it,” he said. “I personally did not feel that. Maybe because I’m one of the only ones that had 3,000 innings under my belt before I had it. My body knows what to do.
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