Our long national nightmare is over: Willians Astudillo has returned from the 10-day injured list. La Tortuga succumbed to a hamstring strain near the end of April, and the baseball world has been deprived of his mirth and supernatural contact skills for weeks. Okay, maybe like a week and a half, but that’s a long time to go without this virtuoso.
He returned just in time to receive a first pitch from his mother, Ana Mercedes.
In his first game back, Astudillo went 1-for-5 with a double and characteristically did not draw a walk or strike out.