ANAHEIM — Robert Stephenson went from having a very common injury with a lengthy timeline to a rare one with no timeline at all.

In his second game back in the big leagues after a 13-month rehab from Tommy John surgery , the Angels’ right-hander felt a pain in his bicep that he said Saturday has been diagnosed as a stretched nerve.

“Kind of a weird injury, to be honest,” Stephenson said. “Unfortunately, I don’t really know what the timetable is, because they just don’t react the same way. You can’t treat it like a muscle or a ligament or anything, so kind of just waiting for it to settle down before I start throwing again.”

Stephenson said he was told the most recent similar example in the big leagues was from 2018.

“The treatment is essentially just kind of resting it,” Stephenson s

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