Erick Fedde was pressed into action last night when Stephen Strasburg was a late scratch with a nerve issue/impingement in his right wrist/thumb.
Fedde, 27, made the Opening Day roster as a long reliever in the bullpen, but his manager, Davey Martinez, said he thought the right-hander was stretched out enough to get through the outing against the New York Yankees’ lineup.
“Fedde was our long guy, and he was stretched out pretty good,” Martinez explained.
“He’s actually coming off a day where he backed up Strasburg in Baltimore, so this would have been his day, honestly, to start.