ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers placed pitcher Brandon Woodruff on the 15-day injured list Sunday with a right lat strain, putting his availability for the playoffs in jeopardy.

Woodruff, who returned this season after October 2023 shoulder surgery, felt something amiss in his tricep during a bullpen session Saturday, and an initial evaluation traced the issue to the lat in his upper back.

“This is a side effect of getting back into doing this at a high level, and that’s it. Is this career-ending? No, it’s nothing like that,” Woodruff said while sitting in the Brewers’ dugout. “It’s nothing even compared to the surgery, but it’s just one of those things that it’ll heal, it’ll get better. It’s just (bad) timing.”

The news comes four days after left-hander José Quintana went on the

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