Daily News | After catching COVID, Phillies pitcher Zach Eflin kept his arm fresh by playing catch with his wife
Zach Eflin had to be away from the Phillies for more than a week after he tested positive earlier this month for COVID-19. But the pitcher also had to keep his arm in shape. So it helped that his wife, Lauren, was a softball player in high school.
Lauren Eflin eventually had enough, telling her husband he was throwing too hard and asked him to throw her fly balls instead. Eflin’s average fastball this season is 93 mph and his wife didn’t have any protective gear except a glove. “I just did what I could with what I had, but I was just thankful I was able to start and be healthy and build on this,” Eflin said. “...It’s probably the worst feeling you could have because I’ve done it before in my career with knee surgery and having COVID last year. It’s never fun watching your guys go to war without you there. So that sucked. Just long days, and then the games didn’t come on until 10 at night, so that wasn’t fun. But I’m happy to be back.
Eflin threw 85 pitches and the Phillies were not comfortable pushing him deeper into the game after a long layoff. He induced weak contact with seven groundouts and threw first-pitch strikes to 18 of the 23 batters he faced.
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