There was some good news on the injury front for the Seattle Mariners before Tuesday’s game against the New York Yankees at T-Mobile Park.

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Ace Logan Gilbert was on the mound for a bullpen session pregame for the first time since going on the injured list with a flexor strain in his pitching arm suffered April 25 against the Miami Marlins.

Mariners insider Shannon Drayer reported the latest update on Gilbert during a conversation with Seattle Sports’ Wyman and Bob.

Drayer spoke with Gilbert, catcher Mitch Garver, who caught the bullpen session, and a Mariners pitching coach after Gilbert’s session. They reported that Gilbert was throwing at 90% intensity and was allowed to push it even further on his final pitches.

“He was sitting on a quote ‘easy’ 92, 93 (mph on his fastball) and then got up to 94, 95 on the last couple of pitches,” Drayer said.

Gilbert’s bullpen session came after he took the mound for the first time since the injury and threw lightly Monday.

Gilbert was 1-1 with a 2.37 ERA over 30 1/3 innings in six starts when he went down with injury. The right-hander made his first All-Star team and finished sixth in Cy Young voting while going 9-12 with a 3.23 ERA over a league-high 208 2/3 innings last season.

As for the plan for Gilbert moving forward?

“He’s probably going to kind of have a little throwing program where he’s throwing for three days, then takes a day off and throws another bullpen and then go from there,” Drayer said. “So he is really, really quickly coming back.”

The Mariners haven’t given any word on how long of a rehab stint Gilbert will eventually need before returning to the big league roster. Drayer estimated it would be at least two outings.

Gilbert said the club tried to pinpoint what led to the flexor strain, but that the training staff hadn’t been able to figure out the exact cause.

“He thinks it was probably just random,” Drayer said. “He does all sorts of different things to stay healthy and stay arm healthy. Was it one of those things? Probably not. Maybe it was one pitch. Maybe it was some things that were building up. They really haven’t been able to isolate it. But he said that he’s not really had a problem since and everything felt great out there today.

“Of course, the next day is always the test. But so far, that’s a test that he just keeps passing.”

For the full conversation with Seattle Mariners insider Shannon Drayer, see the video at the top of this story. Listen to Wyman and Bob weekdays from 2-7 p.m.

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