The Los Angeles Dodgers star pitcher recently saw a return to the court after spending 648 days in rehab after a bite of salad end in surgery

May’s fastball sat 94 to 95 mph Sunday and still has late life. He’s tinkered with his slider this spring training, finding a shape that keeps its wicked horizontal movement while adding some depth. “It’s still pretty electric and pretty unbelievable what comes out of that arm,

There are injuries and there are freak accidents. Dustin May suffered the latter in 2024. May reveals what caused an esophagus injury that kept him sidelined.

Dustin May's 2024 season ended before it started, but for a bizarre reason. The Dodgers pitcher tore his esophagus, requiring him to undergo emergency surgery.

May took a bite of salad and ended up in emergency surgery due to a torn esophagus. He returned to the mound for the Dodgers on Sunday.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Dustin May talked publicly for the first time about the emergency surgery he underwent after a piece of lettuce caused a perforation in his esophagus.

May, who during the 2023 season had flexor tendon and Tommy John surgery, was rehabbing at the Dodgers’ Camelback Ranch facility in Arizona when he went out to dinner on July 10 and got a piece of lettuce stuck in his throat, which caused a serious tear in his esophagus, he told the Los Angeles Times.