Kade Durnin knew right away that something was badly wrong.

“It’s unlike any other feeling that you’ve probably ever had, in terms of arm pain,” the 19-year-old college pitcher says in an interview with CNN Sports . “It feels like you got hit in the funny bone – it’s just not very funny.”

Durnin was training his arm when he felt a pop. Before long, a doctor was delivering the news that no pitcher wants to hear: He had torn his ulnar collateral ligament (UCL).

It is an injury which has plagued Major League Baseball for the best part of the last century . The ligament in your elbow which connects the bone in your upper arm to the one in your forearm – and is only about as strong as “a piece of celery” – tears, leaving you unable to throw and facing a very length spell on the sidelin

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