LOS ANGELES — Dodgers outfielder Jason Heyward is anticipated to overlook extra time on the injured checklist with again tightness after lacking the final two weeks whereas out.
After hitting and operating on the sector final Friday at Dodger Stadium, the ache stays for Heyward, who final performed for the Dodgers on March 30.
“Jason's going to get again to performing some baseball, however you understand he's not alone — he's trending in the precise course, so far as feeling higher,” supervisor Dave Roberts stated Monday. “However the residual ache was type of imminent.”
Roberts additionally stated that given the time Heyward has already missed, he must go on a rehab project within the minor leagues earlier than being activated. Heyward hasn't performed within the minors since 2017 with the Cubs, and in his final six stints on the injured checklist in Chicago he by no means went on a rehab project.
“I nonetheless assume it's going to be a shorter time period from right here,” Roberts stated. “However I don't know what the timeline is.”
Getting into Monday, with Heyward out, the Dodgers unfold the starters in left area — with Teoscar Hernández shifting from left area to proper — between Chris Taylor (seven begins, 27 plate appearances), Kiké Hernández (4 begins, 16 PA), and lefty Taylor Trammell (one begin, three PA). That trio in these begins has a mixed 4 hits in 43 at-bats — all 4 singles by Hernández — with two runs scored and two RBIs.
It's a part of a much bigger drawback for the Dodgers, who by the primary 18 video games of the season have gotten little manufacturing out of the underside three spots within the batting order.
On Monday evening, Taylor begins in left area with Nationals lefty Parker Mitchell beginning and making his main league debut. Kiké Hernández may even begin on Monday, in middle area.
