Stephen Strasburg’s return: Tommy John surgery has come a long way
The baseball world will take a break from its pennant races Tuesday night and watch Stephen Strasburg hurl fastballs at close to 100 mph, mesmerized again with his talent. It will possess only a vague understanding of the medical advances that allowed him to do so now and, the Washington Nationals hope, for years to come.
Strasburg will return to the major leagues one year, one month and 16 days after he threw a change-up and snapped the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. One year ago Saturday, Lewis Yocum bored holes in a bone in Strasburg's elbow and attached to it a tendon removed from Strasburg's thigh. Over time it transformed into a replacement ulnar collateral ligament, a thin strand of tissue that gave Strasburg new pitching life.
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