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Lucas Gilbreath pushed through “brutal, frustrating” rehab to pitch for Rockies again

There were butterflies the size of pterodactyls fluttering around Lucas Gilbreath’s tummy when he took the mound at Coors Field on Friday night.

That was a good thing.

“It was awesome,” the Rockies lefty reliever said. “It’s the closest thing I’ve had since my debut, honestly. It almost felt like a second debut.”

Understandably so. Because of elbow and shoulder injuries, Gilbreath, 28, had not pitched in nearly two years before he took the mound in the seventh inning of Colorado’s 7-3 win over the Padres. Gilbreath got Luis Arraez to fly out to deep right field and induced Jurickson Profar to ground out weakly to first base.