When we got to Lynette's house from Alpine everyone thought that he might have Tendonitis. Tendonitis is something that a lot of pitchers get when they have thrown too many curve balls or get lazy in their fundamentals.
We returned to Santa Clara on Monday, September 7th, and his arm still hurt, so, we gave him some ibuprofen as his pitching coach prescribed and decided to wait to see if his arm would stop hurting after a few days of icing it down. Well, it was still hurting on Thursday. So,Matt took Devin to the doctor on Friday, so we could find out for sure what it is and he sent us to the Orthopedic the next Monday. It is not Tendonitis, but he was lazy in throwing his Fast Ball and so he caused swelling to the Growth Plates in his elbow. The good news is that he can still pitch, but was advised not to throw curves, (his favorite,)until he is 14. The Orthopedic also told him to get his coach to get him back into the fundamental mode of throwing correctly. He has to stop pitching for 3 weeks and with games every Saturday he is really bummed about that, but the best news of all is....... The Growth Plate X-ray's told the doctor that Devin has a ton of room to grow and that he will be a lot bigger than he is now and could be as tall as Matt when he is done growing! So this frustrating experience for Devin, ended up helping him to know that he will not always be small like his mother! Darn, I like my little Dynamite the way he is. But now he feels better about himself being smaller than all of his friends.
Devin throwing his last warm-up pitch before his first game in Alpine. Little did we know that he was three Innings away from not pitching for awhile.
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