Nationals’ Stephen Strasburg readies for his first rehab start
DENVER — When he stood on the mound in a minor league stadium last year for the first time since Tommy John surgery, Jordan Zimmermann looked around and saw 500, maybe 600 fans. He had pitched in the majors, and so that should not have meant anything to Zimmermann. But it did. The first thing he noticed was the people.
"You didn't hear the crickets like you could in Florida," Zimmermann said.
Sunday, at Class A Hagerstown, Stephen Strasburg will pitch in his first competitive game since Aug. 21 last year, the night he threw a 91-mph change-up to Domonic Brown in Philadelphia and snapped the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. Strasburg has finished his sweltering, lonely, laborious rehab in Viera, Fla. Only a month or so of minor league rehab starts separate him from the major leagues, a final stage of recovery that begins now.
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