Last seen in the Mariners clubhouse, nearly two weeks ago, Braden Bishop sat at his locker and described what he thought was a cramped muscle in his shoulder, an injury that forced the rookie center fielder to remove himself from the Mariners’ game against Houston earlier that night.
That was June 4. After restless night, Bishop got up the next morning and checked in with Dr. Edward Khalfayan. That’s when he learned the real nature of his injury, and this was no muscle cramp.
Before the Mariners’ series-opener against Kansas City, Bishop was back in front on his locker on Monday afternoon, back in the M’s clubhouse for the first time since having emergency surgery June 5 to repair a ruptured a blood vessel in his spleen.