{"id":82008,"date":"2025-08-23T10:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T10:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=82008"},"modified":"2025-08-23T10:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T10:08:38","slug":"dodgers-fans-must-not-be-paying-attention-to-injury-returns-if-they-keep-flipping-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=82008","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers fans must not be paying attention to injury returns if they keep flipping out"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-92591\">\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_105,w_2966,h_1668\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/GettyImages\/mmsport\/75\/01k39ac9tnk9j0wpzezq.jpg\" alt=\"Dodgers fans must not be paying attention to injury returns if they keep flipping out - News 365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Starting on Friday night, the Dodgers are going back to face the Padres in the two teams\u2019 last meeting of the regular season. They have a one-game lead; it\u2019s better than the one-game deficit going into the last series, but it\u2019s still sort of unacceptable that the Dodgers couldn\u2019t use their four-game set against the Rockies to pad it. Instead, they settled for a series split in a run of games that made Dodgers fans furious.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">The big story from the two lost games were defense and pitching. Two misplays from Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez directly led to the Dodgers suffering a walk off, and then Shohei Ohtani turned in his worst start of the season so far.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">Meanwhile, the bullpen carousel is turning at its usual clip. The latest moves: Alexis D\u00edaz was optioned and trade deadline acquisition Paul Gervase was called up, only to be sent down exactly a day later and replaced by Matt Sauer. Gervase gave up a run in two innings in his Dodger debut. The biggest worry, though, is that the Dodgers have been completely without a proper closer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\">However, outrage and panic might be a <em>little<\/em> outsized. Tanner Scott is set to come off the IL on Friday, and Kirby Yates will follow on Saturday \u2014 right in the nick of time for what could be the Dodgers\u2019 most important series of the season.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-4\">Tanner Scott, Kirby Yates returns will hopefully signal turnaround for Dodgers bullpen<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\">Other injured players are also on their ways back. Hyeseong Kim and Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez began rehab assignments in Triple-A on Thursday, and Roki Sasaki completed his second start (though it\u2019s unclear how much help he\u2019ll actually offer). Michael Kopech has also been in OKC since Aug. 14 and expects to be back by Aug. 27.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">Their timing couldn\u2019t be better. The Dodgers have a relatively smooth schedule to close out their regular season \u2014\u00a0after they get around the Padres.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">There are caveats, of course. Scott and Yates weren\u2019t pitching well before they went onto the IL, and they won\u2019t be of any help to the club if that persists when they\u2019re reinstated to the roster. The Dodgers could keep making the mistake of giving Michael Conforto a regular role in the outfield even when Kim and Hern\u00e1ndez are back.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">The Dodgers don\u2019t seem at all worried about getting to the postseason one way or the other. Even if they finish the season in second place behind the Padres, their record will probably be good enough to edge out one of the Mets or Reds, who are fighting for the last spot. Getting a wave of players back all at once must add to that feeling of reassurance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\">Some caution is still valid, though. Having these guys back won\u2019t mean anything if they don\u2019t perform, but their track records suggest they will. So don\u2019t count on the outfield aligment and bullpen structure causing fits for much longer.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates&#8217; returns will hopefully signal turnaround for the Dodgers&#8217; bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":82009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dodgers fans must not be paying attention to injury returns if they keep flipping out - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=82008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dodgers fans must not be paying attention to injury returns if they keep flipping out - 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