{"id":56156,"date":"2025-05-26T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/56156\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T14:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T14:10:11","slug":"dustin-may-feared-life-would-be-forever-altered-after-esophagus-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/56156\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin May Feared Life Would be Forever Altered After Esophagus Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dodgers’ Dustin May
\n Feared Life Would Forever Be Altered
\n … After Esophagus Surgery<\/p>\n

\n Published May 26, 2025 12:50 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Dustin May is finally back on the mound, doing what he loves, after multiple serious surgeries — including one on his esophagus — which he says had him fearing he’d never be able to live a normal life again!<\/p>\n

The Dodgers’ right-handed flame thrower joined Babcock on the TMZ Sports TV show this week (airs nightly on FS1) … and says he couldn’t be happier to be back on the hill.<\/p>\n

“Just being able to compete to go out and just compete is always a positive in my at this point,” May told us. “I’ve been out for so long, so just being able to just do it to the amount that I have been, I’ve just been excited to be back with the guys.”<\/p>\n

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Dustin says he’s still a work in progress — he’s not exactly where he wants to be just yet — but the 27-year-old is making steady progress, and he isn’t taking the opportunity for granted after the ordeal he’s been through.<\/p>\n

Remember, May suffered a freak accident while eating a salad in 2024 … when he tore his esophagus while eating lunch.<\/p>\n

Dustin wasn’t only worried about baseball … he was concerned he might not be able to live a normal life again.<\/p>\n

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“I was honestly worried that I wasn’t going to live a normal day-to-day life after surgery because it is such a rare thing. It’s not like a normal procedure to do, especially on a young person, and definitely not on somebody who has to use their body in a way a professional athlete does.”<\/p>\n

Luckily, May, who also underwent Tommy John surgery in mid-2021, seems to be in a great place now … and while he hopes to bring down that 4.09 ERA, just being back on the field is a huge win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dodgers’ Dustin May Feared Life Would Forever Be Altered … After Esophagus Surgery Published May 26, 2025 12:50…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,169,185,317,1564],"class_list":{"0":"post-56156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-news","12":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114574539482973084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}