“It takes time to get everything back,” Miller said. “That’s kind of what it felt like, just building up after an off-season. Everything’s in the spot it where needs to be. I’m looking forward to it.”

Miller told Watson he’d been dealing with shoulder inflammation ever since the team returned from Seoul, South Korea to begin its regular season in March.

Miller didn’t pitch in either of the Dodgers’ games against the San Diego Padres; rather, he took the ball when the Dodgers played a Korean All-Star team on March 18. He allowed two runs in five innings that day, throwing 76 pitches in the Dodgers’ 5-2 win.

Each of Miller’s next two starts went well, too — a scoreless 4.2-inning effort agains the Angels on March 24 and a scoreless six-inning effort against the Cardinals on March 29 in his regular season debut. Things got worse from there.

In his second start of the regular season, Miller was rocked for five runs over 1.2 innings in the Dodgers’ loss to the Cubs in Chicago’s Wrigley Field, a homecoming game for the Illinois native. In his next start, April 10 in Minnesota, Miller allowed two runs in four innings, but labored a bit in the 73-pitch effort.

Miller said he still isn’t sure how or when he got hurt.

“I’m still trying to figure out what caused it,” he told Watson. “It all started right after Korea, and slowly just got a little bit worse, and started messing with my delivery a little bit, and mechanics were changing a little bit. I’m feeling 100 percent now, and just looking to stay that way the rest of the season.”