Everybody told Seranthony Domínguez to be patient. Nearly three-quarters of the way through the season, there isn’t a better Phillies success story.
That’s what the doctors and trainers kept saying. Coaches, too. Even Héctor Rondón and Neftalí Feliz, pitchers who joined theafter Domínguez had a right elbow ligament reconstructed on July 30, 2020, and were gone long before he returned to a major league mound 430 days later, assured him that his electric fastball would come back if only he gave it time.
Internally, the discussion among team officials isn’t about which reliever from an improved bullpen they trust the most with a game on the line. It’s whether Domínguez might actually be better now than he was in 2018, when he made a meteoric rise from a converted high-A starter to a closer in the majors.
Oh, and about the velocity: Domínguez’s sinker and four-seam fastball are averaging 98.1 and 97.4 mph, respectively, on par with his 2018 radar readings . The roots of Domínguez’s comeback may be in a gym that he built at his home in Mao, a city in the northwest region of the Dominican Republic, and the two-a-day workouts that became his offseason routine.
Domínguez delayed the surgery until July 2020. After the standard 12-month rehab, he appeared in a game for high-A Jersey Shore last Aug. 3. Two months later, he pitched one inning in the season finale in Miami, retiring three consecutive batters. The Phillies gave Domínguez a program to follow. But once the owners locked out the players on Dec. 1, he couldn‘t have contact with team officials, including assistant athletic trainer Joe Rauch, who helped oversee Domínguez’s rehab.“I just did the things I learned from the Phillies, the way I was working before,” Domínguez said. “If I go 100 percent, now I’ve got to go 300, 40 percent. I’ve got to work double because I’ve got to pull myself back to the big leagues.
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