Los Angeles Dodgers Pitcher Dustin May was on his way back from an injury in the hope of joining the team to help them win a World Series in July 2024.
May 27 rehabed from a Flexor Sen and Tommy John Revision Surgery with a chance to return late in the season.
On the night of July 10, everything changed.
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Los Angeles Dodgers Pitcher Dustin May throws during a spring training at Camelback Ranch. (Joe Camporeale-Misted Pictures)
While May still rehabed on Dodgers’ Camelback Ranch Facility, he ordered a salad for dinner.
May took a bite and felt salad in the throat. He tried to wash it down with some water, but knew something was wrong.
For 15 minutes it was “Mega-Painful,” May said via La Times, talking about the incident in public for the first time last week. The pain was in the throat and stomach.
It turns out that May unconsciously had suffered a serious tear in his esophagus. Later, he learned that the salad that was put in the throat perforated its esophagus, something that is very unusual.
When the pain went off, maybe he thought he would be doing well.
“I’m not a big panic,” he said. “It’s a little cooled. So I was like, ‘I’m well. I don’t have to do anything.'”
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Los Angeles Dodgers Starting Pull Dustin May warms up during spring training. (Rick Scuteri-USA Today Sports)
Millie, May’s wife, was not of the same thinking as Dustin.
“No,” maybe remembered her and said. “We need to be to get it checked out.”
After a CT scan revealed the meaning of the tear in May’s esophagus, doctors immediately rushed into surgery.
“It was extremely frustrating. You can’t plan it. You can’t try to prevent it. It just happened,” May said.
“It wasn’t on my bingo card in 2024.”
The operation, which can be described as “basically a full abdominal surgery”, left the jug with a long scar from his lower chest to the stomach.
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Los Angeles Dodgers Pitcher Dustin May throws during spring training at Camelback Ranch. (Joe Camporeale-Misted Pictures)
May went from being a piece of Dodgers Pitching staff down the stretch to realizing how fragile life is.
“It just gives me a different point of view on many things in life. Just seeing how something so non-baseball-related can just be-it can be gone in a second. And the things it puts my wife through it gave me definitely (a feeling) of, ‘wow, things can change like that.’ It was definitely very scary, ”May said.
“It was definitely a life -changing event. It was definitely very serious. It is not a very common operation. It was definitely an emergency.”
May’s Tommy John procedure was the second time he had undergone the repair of his elbow when he underwent the operation in 2021.
May has beaten 191.2 laps across five seasons in the major leagues. He has been effective when he is healthy as he has a 3.10 era with 174 strikes when he is on the haug for dodgers.
Dodgers’ rotation is filled with aces, making it no guarantee that is in the starting rotation despite being healthy again.
Los Angeles Dodgers Pitchers, from Left, Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May and Joe Kelly in Bullpen during spring training at Camelback Ranch. (Jayne Kamin-Concea-usa Today Sports)
Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, Tyler Glasnow and Clayton Kershaw are among the pencil in the starting rotation.
Either way, May is excited to finally be healthy and able to compete again.
“I’m definitely excited and definitely have a deeper appreciation of the game.”
