Ohtani won't win if he keeps this up, Dodgers starting lineup 'riddled' with 12th injury
The Los Angeles Dodgers have suffered another injury. The team's winningest pitcher (11 wins), Gavin Stone (26), who has been the only starter to stay in the rotation all season, has been placed on the disabled list. Shohei Ohtani's (30) championship bid is also in jeopardy, as he is out for the season with no timetable for a return.
The Dodgers placed Stone on the 15-day disabled list ahead of a home game against the Cleveland Indians on Sunday. Right shoulder inflammation. Stone felt soreness in his shoulder after leaving a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 1, and after resting, he was examined and found to have inflammation.
Stone joins Clayton Kershaw (shoulder/toe), Tyler Glasnow (back/elbow), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (shoulder), Walker Buehler (hip), Bobby Miller (shoulder), Michael Grove (intercostal), Kyle Hurt (shoulder) and Ryan Brazeiro (calf) as the Dodgers have nine pitchers on the disabled list with at least one start this year. Add in pitchers like Tony Gonsolin (elbow), Dustin May (esophagus) and Emmitt Scherzer (elbow), who are out for the season without throwing a pitch, and you have 12 pitchers on the disabled list.
According to local media outlets, including MLB.com, Stone is not guaranteed to return for the rest of the season. Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said of Stone's return, “I don't know. I think he's going to do everything he can, but there's so many unknowns. It's hard to speculate at this point.”
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “Stone won't be able to throw for at least 10 days,” adding, “This has been a growth year for him. “This was a year of growth for him, and he did a lot for the team to be an All-Star. It will be disappointing to not see him pitch the rest of the season.”
In his first full season, Stone went 11-5 with a 3.53 ERA and 116 strikeouts in 140⅓ innings over 25 games. He led the Dodgers in starts and innings pitched with the only double-digit wins on the team. Stone was a steady presence in a Dodgers starting rotation that was riddled with injuries throughout the season.
Despite his postseason inexperience, he was expected to be a mainstay of the Dodgers' rotation in fall baseball, but shoulder inflammation threatened to shut him down for the season. In addition to Stone, the Dodgers have a number of other starters on the disabled list, including Glassnow (elbow tendinitis), Yamamoto (rotator cuff injury), and Kershaw (big toe inflammation).
Yamamoto is scheduled to return on April 11 against the Cubs, but the rest of the pitchers are still in doubt. Glassnow will see the results of a bullpen session on Aug. 8. “We don't know who's going to make it and who's not going to make it,” Roberts said, adding that it's been a ”really tough year for pitchers with injuries.”
“The next three weeks are going to be a critical time for the Dodgers,” Roberts told MLB.com. They will continue to evaluate their starting pitchers and figure out how to best utilize their pitching staff going forward. The Dodgers suffered a major blow to their starting rotation last October, and while they're trying to avoid a second straight year of this, they've taken another big hit with Stone's departure.
The starting rotation now consists of Zack Flaherty, Walker Buehler, and Bobby Miller. Buehler and Miller have struggled all season, so there's no clear-cut starter outside of transfer Flaherty. It's doubtful that the injured pitchers will be able to pitch normally when they return. For now, Yamamoto is expected to pitch 2-3 innings with a pitch count limit in his return. For Glassnow and Kershaw, whose returns are slower, there's no guarantee of a solid buildup to the postseason. With question marks hanging over their most important starters in the short-term, the Dodgers' championship hopes are slowly being clouded.
The rest of the regular season is also a concern. In the midst of a two-game losing streak, center fielder Teoscar Hernandez left Sunday's game in Cleveland after being hit in the left ankle by a first-pitch slider from right-hander Matthew Boyd in the first inning. Hernandez, who was immediately replaced by a pinch-hitter, was initially listed as having a bruise but will likely be placed on the disabled list.
Roberts said, “The pain usually subsides after the game, but I'm worried because it's bad. He could barely move his foot, so we'll see how it goes over the next couple days,” Roberts said. Despite being in first place in the National League West, the Dodgers can't rest until the end, as the second-place San Diego Padres are four games back. With San Diego's head-to-head advantage, the actual gap between the two teams is three games.
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