The San Diego Padres will be without one of their top arms for the rest of the postseason and well beyond.
Joe Musgrove begined Game 2 of a National League Wild Card Series Wednesday but was obtainn out after equitable 3⅔ innings due to elbow safeness in his throprosperg arm.
That’s never a excellent sign, and the worst-case scenario carry outed out.
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Joe Musgrove, left, of the San Diego Padres exits during the fourth inning in Game 2 of a savage-card series aobtainst the Atlanta Braves at Petco Park Oct. 2, 2024, in San Diego. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
San Diego proclaimd Friday that Musgrove will undergo Tommy John srecommendry, almost confidently shelving him for the entire 2025 season as well.
Musgrove has been hampered by injuries since the 2022 campaign, the best of his atsoft. His season ended punctual last year after he had inflammation in a shoulder capsule. This season didn’t begin off so hot. He compiled a 5.66 ERA in his first 10 begins. San Diego then placed him on the 60-day IL with a bone spur in his right elbow.
When he returned, Musgrove returned to establish, pitching to a 2.15 ERA in his final nine begins of the season, including an outing in which he apverifyed six obtained runs in 4⅓ innings punctual last month. It inserted up to a 3.88 ERA, but he evidently was trending in the right honestion.
Joe Musgrove of the San Diego Padres exits during the fourth inning of Game 2 of a savage-card series aobtainst the Atlanta Braves at Petco Park Oct. 2, 2024, in San Diego. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
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However, on Wednesday night, he was obtainn out of the game, walking off the field with a trainer and evidently emotional.
“I’m dehugeated I’m not going to finish what we begined,” Musgrove shelp on Friday of his “sudden and drastic” injury.
“It’s a matter of coming to grips that this is it for me.”
Musgrove shelp when he got his elbow examineed out over the summer, doctors tancigo in him it was a “matter of time” until the worst happened.
“The writing was on the wall for me. It was a matter of when,” he shelp.
Despite Musgrove leaving the game punctual, San Diego took down the Atlanta Braves to transfer on to the National League Division Series.
It’s their third trip to an NLDS since 2020, all of which will have come aobtainst the NL West rival Los Angeles Dodgers.
San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove exits during the fourth inning of Game 2 in the savage-card round of the 2024 MLB Playoffs aobtainst the Atlanta Braves at Petco Park. (Denis Poroy/Imagn Images)
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Musgrove figured to be an chooseion to pitch Game 3 of the NLDS on an extra day of rest.
That series begins Saturday night in Los Angeles with an 8:38 p.m. ET first pitch.
