Adam Conley threw his first pitch in the majors in over two months earlier this week.
It didn’t go as planned.
“It’s funny, I thought in the back of my head, ‘What if I throw this halfway up the backstop?’ ” Conley said. “What I did wasn’t too far off that. … I kind of laughed at it myself.”
The low fastball from an anxious Conley bounced in the dirt and past catcher J.T. Realmuto. His next pitch was right down the middle for a strike.
Once he settled in, Conley started to look a little more like the pitcher the Marlins thought had the potential to become a mainstay in their rotation rather than the one who struggled in April and was sent to the minors, where he remained until this past Tuesday.