Nick Pivetta is confident he\u2019ll pitch again this season.<\/p>\n
Yet the root cause of the inflammation in Pivetta\u2019s right elbow \u2014 a flexor strain \u2014 will sideline the 33-year-old right-hander \u201cweeks and maybe months,\u201d manager Craig Stammen said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
There is no talk of surgery for now. Pivetta missed roughly a month with a flexor strain in 2024 and came back to throw 1342\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re kind of discussing exactly what that looks like,\u201d Stammen said. \u201cHe\u2019s definitely going to take some time off throwing, let it rest, let it heal and then get back on the throwing program and strengthening program. So it\u2019s probably going to be more weeks and maybe months than it is just specific days. So he\u2019s going to take some time. But we feel pretty confident he\u2019s going to get back this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pivetta exited Sunday\u2019s start in the top of the fourth inning with elbow stiffness. He was placed on the 15-day injured list on Tuesday and on Wednesday called the media over to his locker to address his status.<\/p>\n
\u201cFeeling better day by day,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, it\u2019s going to take some time. It\u2019s going to be a little bit of a process, but we have a good medical staff here trying to do the right things and just trying to get ahead of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cFor me, it\u2019s just focusing on rehab. I have really good strength, which is a positive. I think just listening to my body, making sure that I\u2019m listening, actually listening to it, not just pitching through things and taking the right measures and leaning on the great medical staff we have here. Those guys are going to help me out like they have before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pivetta had a start pushed back in spring training with what was described as arm fatigue. Three days after elbow stiffness forced him from the game, Pivetta did not push back on the potential similarities.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it probably correlates a little bit,\u201d Pivetta said. \u201cI think it\u2019s something a little bit different in this sense, but I think \u2026 parts of that probably came back too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pivetta allowed six runs in three innings on opening day before rallying over his next three starts, which included three no-hit innings to start Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Any amount of time on the injured list is both a blow to Pivetta and a Padres team looking to qualify for the postseason for a third straight year.<\/p>\n
Pivetta is making $19 million this season and was seen as a surefire opt-out candidate \u2014 he\u2019ll make $14 million in 2027 if he opts in \u2014 had he come close to replicating a season in which he led the rotation with 13 wins, a 2.87 ERA and 181\u2154 innings pitched.<\/p>\n
Knuckleballer Matt Waldron is taking Pivetta\u2019s spot in the rotation this weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really frustrating for me personally,\u201d Pivetta said. \u201cI mean, I was feeling really well. I felt like I was pitching better. I love contributing to the team. I take great pride in playing baseball, playing for the fans, playing for my teammates, for the organization.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, you know, just take a step back. Lean on my teammates. Lean on Joe (Musgrove), (Yu) Darvish, and just see how it goes from here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Pivetta is confident he\u2019ll pitch again this season. Yet the root cause of the inflammation in Pivetta\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[104693,23559,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-586913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-nick-pivetta","9":"tag-padres","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}