NEW YORK — St. Louis Cardinals starter Kyle Lohse had an expansive bullpen session this afternoon at Citi Field, throwing a normal warmup and then simulating a complete inning, right down to the warmup tosses before facing a stand-in batter.

He “walked” one of the three batters he “faced” and threw about 60 total pitches.

“I’m happy with how my arm feels,” Lohse said. “I wish I had a little better command of the fastball. It feels overly strong.”

Lohse likened how he feels with his command to the early days of spring training, but said his arm strength was regular-season ready. Lohse will throw against Thursday — and that will be a lighter session here at Citi Field — and then he’ll have another bullpen throw or face hitters on Saturday. Depending on how he comes out of that session back at Busch Stadium, the Cardinals will determine if/when he will rejoin the rotation.

Lohse is on the disabled list with a strain in his right forearm.

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Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak confirmed today that Joe Mather had wrist surgery Monday, though the Cardinals do not yet know if it will end Mather’s season. It is the third surgery Mather has had on his left wrist in the past 12 months. Mather has spent all season with Class AAA Memphis, and he’s twice gone on the disabled list because of an inability to generate enough pop with his bat because of the limitations of his wrist. Mather was most recently put on the disabled list about 10 days ago.

The second surgery he had — a cleanup procedure down earlier this season — was a limited procedure designed to get him back on the field as early as possible. At the time Mather and the team knew that if it didn’t allow him to swing the bat painfree, then a third surgery would be inevitable.

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