DENVER – Buster Posey endured a daily maintenance program throughout the 2012 season on his left ankle.
He spent countless hours on the trainer’s table and in the gym getting treatment to keep inflammation at bay and completing a mindless checklist of exercises to ensure that scar tissue wouldn’t harden up and strangle his range of motion.
He kept up the protocol in part of 2013 as well. Ever since then, the catastrophic ankle injury that tore three ligaments, imperiled his career and helped to spur a major rule change became an afterthought.
Until he hit a ball over the fence in the seventh inning Thursday night, and felt a jolt of sudden pain.