The Los Angeles Dodgers have been without Scott Alexander since May 3, when he was placed on the 10-day injured list due to left shoulder inflammation.
The initial hope was for Alexander to make a speedy return, but he only recently faced batters as the final checkpoint before beginning a rehab assignment. The prolonged absence has been due to Alexander’s shoulder not recovering in the expected timeline.
“In my case, it took about 10 days to finally start feeling better,” he said. “There’s like a threshold of when you’re not throwing — as far as taking days off — there’s a little bit of a threshold to where you get to a certain where the layoff has been too long and you’re forced to do this throwing program to build back up.