Mariners left-hander Marco Gonzales could have season-ending forearm surgical procedure

SEATTLE — Seattle Mariners left-hander Marco Gonzales will bear nerve surgical procedure and can miss the remainder of the season.

Gonzales could have surgical procedure Aug. 22 to decompress the anterior interosseous nerve in his left forearm. The 31-year-old hopes to recuperate by spring coaching.

“This comes after a lengthy process of trying to find answers,” Gonzales stated Sunday. “This gives me the best chance to move forward and get past this so it doesn’t happen any further.”

Gonzales was 4-1 with a 5.22 ERA in 10 begins. He hasn’t pitched since May 28, when he felt discomfort within the forearm after throwing 5 2/3 innings towards Pittsburgh. At the time, the Mariners thought Gonzales had a forearm pressure.

“It became harder and harder to get loose each inning,” Gonzales stated. “I felt some achy soreness in my forearm, in the middle of it. Basically ever since then each time I go to throw a baseball I feel this aching, sore pain in the middle of my forearm.”

Gonzales stated all through the summer season that each time he went by a remedy plan and began throwing, ache remained and the underlying trigger wasn’t clear. He labored with specialists over the previous few weeks in a course of he described as “popping the hood” when the problem with the nerve was discovered.