Rockies Insider: Breaking down Peter Lambert’s return to the mound from Tommy John surgery

Peter Lambert made his instrumentality to the mound from Tommy John country Wednesday for Class-A Advanced Spokane, with the Rockies’ right-hander throwing 2 scoreless innings successful his archetypal rehab assignment.

Lambert, who past threw successful a nonrecreational crippled connected Sept. 20, 2019, astatine Dodger Stadium, allowed 1 deed and besides deed 1 batter. He said helium “felt truly good” arsenic helium sat successful the low-to-mid 90s with his fastball, paired with a curveball and changeup that induced 2 strikeouts.

“Going into my archetypal crippled successful astir 2 years, I didn’t person immoderate goals different than to propulsion a batch of strikes and get immoderate swings (and misses),” Lambert told section media. “I was conscionable excited to beryllium backmost retired there.”

Indians manager Scott Little said it was “great to see” the Rockies’ erstwhile second-round prime transportation successful a crippled pursuing a agelong rehabilitation from his elbow injury.

“You don’t truly person overmuch expectations for a feline who hadn’t pitched successful truthful long, but I cognize he’s ever been a competitor,” Little said. “His stuff’s getting amended and amended arsenic helium gets stronger (in his rehab). That was bully to see, and I extremity my chapeau to him that he’s gotten backmost to wherever helium is. He did well.”

Lambert, 24, debuted with the Rockies with a dazzling outing astatine Wrigley Field successful June 2019. He posted a 7.25 ERA successful 19 starts arsenic a rookie earlier being injured. Lambert is presently scheduled for 3 much rehab starts with Spokane — Sunday, Aug. 27 and Aug. 31 — though those outings are taxable to change.

— Kyle Newman, The Denver Post

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