Red Sox's Sonny Gray Offers Encouraging Update After Injury-Shortened Start
Sonny Gray exited Monday's Boston Red Sox game with hamstring tightness.
Red Sox's Sonny Gray Offers Encouraging Update After Injury-Shortened Start originally appeared on NESN . Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Sonny Gray wouldn't press the panic button after exiting Monday's game early.
The Boston Red Sox pitcher left an 8-6 win over the Detroit Tigers with right hamstring tightness in the third inning. Gray addressed the ailment after the game, per MassLive's Chris Cotillo . "I can honestly say it doesn’t feel like it’s a horrible thing," Gray said.
"It’s just something that’s going to take however long it’s going to take to get right. I don’t know what that is right now. " Gray explained that he felt a "grab" in his hamstring after throwing a ball four to Tigers second baseman Gleyber Torres.
It was a familiar sensation for the 36-year-old, who left after tossing one warm-up pitch. "It’s something I had felt before," Gray said. "In the moment, I knew what it was.