Devin Mesoraco felt it immediately as he reached across his body to stab at a runaway curveball from Ariel Hernandez on July 2. Something wasn’t right in his shoulder, on which he’d had surgery the year before.
The Cincinnati Reds catcher now knows the injury isn’t serious, simply a strained lat muscle and not a torn labrum like he suffered a year ago. But given his recent injury – three surgeries since 2015 – he knew it was best to alert the team.
“They do a great job here of taking care of things and knocking them out before they snowball into anything,” Mesoraco said.