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On the Mend…

Mark Feinsand on Andy Pettitte:

Team trainer Gene Monahan told Pettitte to throw at the same 75% strength he did on Friday, but once Pettitte felt comfortable enough with his leg, he turned it up for his final 20 pitches.

“I heated it up pretty good,” Pettitte said. “I went out there planning on kind of being nice and easy like I did the other day, and it ended up being a little more intensity – and it felt really good. Just another good step in the right direction.”

Pettitte is slated to throw another bullpen session either tomorrow or Wednesday, after which he’ll likely throw a simulated game or live batting practice. There is no firm timetable for his return, but Pettitte estimated that without any further setbacks, he could be back in the rotation by mid-September.

“It just depends on what they want me to do, if they make me throw a couple batting practices and a simulated game,” Pettitte said. “I think the quickest I could get ready would probably be about two weeks or so.”

“That sounds about right,” Joe Girardi said. “As long as we don’t have any setbacks, that’s realistic.”

[Photo Credit: via The New Yorker]

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9 comments

1 Dimelo   ~  Aug 30, 2010 8:48 am

That's an awesome pic, i couldn't read what you posted but I did try.

2 rbj   ~  Aug 30, 2010 9:09 am

There was something to read?

3 Diane Firstman   ~  Aug 30, 2010 10:08 am

Geez .... Andy strains his groin, and ends up looking like a babe ...

4 bp1   ~  Aug 30, 2010 10:16 am

[4] ROFL!!!!

5 Sliced Bread   ~  Aug 30, 2010 10:19 am

[3] his curves have never been this effective

6 Diane Firstman   ~  Aug 30, 2010 10:31 am

[5]

It gives an entirely new meaning to "I'd hit that!" and "You throw like a girl"

7 thelarmis   ~  Aug 30, 2010 1:45 pm

i'd love to be "On Her (M)end". good lord! : o

8 The Hawk   ~  Aug 30, 2010 2:28 pm

What's funny is she could be ugly as sin. We just don't know.

9 thelarmis   ~  Aug 30, 2010 2:36 pm

[8] in that case, she'd be a "butter face" = everything but a face! ; )

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