Chicago White Sox nearer Liam Hendriks pitched a super inning in his first minor-league rehab outing with Triple-A Charlotte on Friday in Gwinnett, Ga.
Hendriks has been on the injured guidelines given that beginning of the season whereas current course of treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He launched on April 20 he was cancer-free after ending chemotherapy on April 5.
“First sport out, it was good being within the bullpen, getting that camaraderie going,” Hendriks said in a videoconference identify Friday night. “However a little bit of moist out proper right here tonight. So it was always an attention-grabbing one, working in. However then endure my warmup pitches after which they made a PA announcement and every teams obtained out and started clapping, which is — don’t get me flawed, it’s truly, very good. I very so much respect it. It made me very emotional.
“I’m a person who pitches on anger, and it’s truly exhausting to get indignant once you perceive the alternative workforce is filled with good people. So a little bit of highly effective to get locked in after which being moist, I slipped on the first pitch after which wanted to finagle my mechanics a little bit of bit merely to make sure I was getting down there all correct.
“A clear inning is a clear inning, and with a strikeout, in order that’s at all times good.”
Hendriks entered throughout the seventh. He obtained a popout, a strikeout and a groundout. He said he’ll pitch as soon as extra on Sunday.
“We’ll play it by ear because it goes,” Hendriks said of the schedule. “Hopefully it’s a little bit of bit smoother in my subsequent outing. However for correct now, I’m merely excited to be proper right here, excited to be a part of the workforce.
“There’s a plan in place. However as you recognize with all these rehab assignments and that type of stuff, it’s written in pencil, by no means in pen.”
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