GLENDALE, Ariz. — Updating our previous post, Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke received something the team called a “lubricating injection” in his right elbow Thursday. He’s expected to be back on a normal routine in a few days.
“I think they wanted to have (the injection) a couple days earlier but they really wanted the doc to be here,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. “We had to wait a couple days.”
Mattingly said that Greinke has received the injection each of the past two years as well, a fact the team didn’t disclose until today.
“Zack had thrown like five bullpens and it’s something he’d planned on doing,” Mattingly said.
If Greinke has had the injection before, it’s worth questioning its efficacy.
In August of last year the Dodgers delayed one of Greinke’s starts for two days because of elbow soreness; he said the injury had been bothering him for a month at the time. Greinke left Camelback Ranch midway through his first camp with the Dodgers because of inflammation in the back of his right elbow.