DETROIT -- Alex Cobb walked off the mound after his last rehab outing Monday for Triple-A Toledo knowing he was done. He had tossed a scoreless inning despite three walks, a single and a stolen base, and he was supposed to pitch another inning, but he couldn’t.

“As I was walking off the mound, I knew I couldn't go back out for a second [inning],” Cobb said on a Zoom call with reporters Saturday. “I felt like once I went in the dugout and I told him I can't go back out, the writing was on the wall for me there.”

All through the summer, Cobb knew his attempt to come back from hip issues was a long shot. He has been dealing with arthritis in his right hip all year, he revealed Saturday, but he said repeatedly that he wanted to give every attempt he could to make it back to pitch for the T

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