"You look in the mirror and you're like, 'Oh I've got some weird bruises there. Maybe I took a weird hop on a ground ball in practice or something,' Muncy recalled recently. You really don't even think about it."
"I remember when it first happened, we were even contemplating not even making it an IL," manager Dave Roberts said. But as days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, Muncy's discomfort never improved.
"I'd have a good day, and then I'd wake up and it'd feel like Day 1 of the injury," Muncy said. It was a whole process to get back to where I felt [OK] to even start to swing.
"It was pretty severe," Muncy said. "It didn't feel like we were ever going to clear that hurdle."
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