Braves pitcher Tyler Matzek spent 5 years battling the yips, which caused his wrist and arm to lock up on him. Now, the 31-year-old is sharing how he overcame anxiety to get back on the mound.
Tyler Matzek of the Atlanta Braves opens up about a 5-year-long bout of anxiety that rendered him unable to play the sport he loves: baseball."It's been great, man, great fan base, great stadium, great team," Matzek says. "Being here on the Braves, being on an unbelievable team, a World Series caliber team, being with some of the greatest dudes in baseball, it's been so much fun.
In 2015, at spring training with the Colorado Rockies, he went to throw the ball, and his muscles locked up."The best way to describe it is it's an overreaction to fear. You start fearing the outcome more than just doing what you can control," Matzek says."I experienced it every single throw, short throw, long throw, it didn't matter, I would just have a kind of muscle tightness, you could say, in my whole arm and my whole body.
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