Davey Martinez didn’t want to commit to anything until Stephen Strasburg went through his between-starts routine, and said he was good to go for his fourth start of the year, following a long rehab process which began when he had surgery for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome after making just five starts in the majors last season.
Strasburg made three rehab starts, two with Single-A Fredericksburg and one with Triple-A Rochester, posting a 1.98 ERA (3 ER in 13 2⁄3 IP), and getting to that six-inning, 100-ish pitch plateau the club wanted him to reach before they’d consider him ready to return to the big leagues.