Braves' Michael Soroka done for season, won't need surgery - ESPN

ATLANTA — Former All-Star Michael Soroka is done for the season, but he did receive a bit of good news in that his latest injury apparently won't require surgery.

The Atlanta Braves placed Soroka on the 15-day injured list Wednesday in another setback for the right-hander whose once-promising career was sidetracked by a pair of major leg injuries.

After Soroka underwent a battery of tests, the team's medical staff determined that forearm inflammation was the cause of numbness in his fingers. No tears were found, leaving rest and rehab as the most likely path to recovery.

«He's done for the year. It's not anything he's going to have time to come back from,» manager Brian Snitker said after Wednesday's loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. «He'll be shut down, and then he can kind of concentrate, when he gets ready, on his offseason program.»

Soroka returned this season after twice tearing his right Achilles tendon, and Snitker initially feared this was another devastating setback.

The manager sounded more optimistic 24 hours later.

«It's one of those things that just happens,» Snitker said. «I think what he did after coming back and getting this far is pretty good. Credit to him and his work ethic and determination and everything that he's done to get this far, into September.»

Reliever Collin McHugh joined Soroka on the 15-day IL with right shoulder inflammation.

The Braves recalled right-handers Darius Vines and Ben Heller from Triple-A Gwinnett.

Soroka, who has pitched most of the season at Gwinnett, started the series opener against the Cardinals but lasted just three innings. He allowed five runs and four hits, including two homers.

He was an All-Star in 2019, when he went 13-4 with a 2.68 ERA in his first full season