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BOSTON -- The last time Jed Lowrie was at Fenway Park, he was a confused young player with a painful wrist.

Lowrie returned to the ball park Wednesday with his injured left wrist is a splint after undergoing surgery on April 21 in Phoenix. After exploring several options, Dr. Donald Sheridan convinced Lowrie that surgery was the way to go if he wanted to get back on the field this season.

"Everything that I've heard from the training people and the doctors I've worked with is that everything went well," said Lowrie. "A lot of the initial reports I was getting was that it was going to be a more complicated procedure, but when I went out to see Dr. Sheridan it was six-eight weeks and that was pretty definitive. That's what I was glad to hear."

Lowrie is hoping that rehabilitation goes smoothly and he's back doing baseball duties by the first week of June.

"Any kind of surgery is a traumatic event and you have to build back the strength and the range of motion," said Lowrie. "There's not a lot of pain but the strength and range of motion are the two things I need to get back."

The Red Sox were hoping that Lowrie would feel strong strictly with rest and treatment but he felt his wrist was getting worse through the first weeks of the season. That's when he decided to explore other options.

"I feel confident going forward that what I did was the right decision considering that I tried every other option. I tried rest, I tried rehab, I tried cortisone," he said. "It worked but I don't have the luxury of waiting for six months or a year to wait for the scar tissue to form around that bone. So I think this was the right choice."

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