Tanner Rainey, 28, talked after he gave up a grand slam by Atlanta starter Huascar Ynoa in Washington’s May 4th loss in the nation’s capital, about his stuff slowly getting back up to what it was in 2019-20, when he established himself as a late-inning option and started to look like he could be a potential future closer.
“As far as the stuff, I feel like it’s pretty close to normal,” Rainey said. “The velo might not be quite what it was last year, but it feels like it’s getting better each time.”
That appearance was, however, the fourth in his first ten this season in which he gave up multiple runs, and the right-hander, who dealt with forearm tightness late in 2020 and a muscle strain near his collar bone this spring, has had to build back up after time off the mound.