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It was a painful night for the Dodgers on Tuesday.
Despite blowing out the Colorado Rockies, the team lost Kiké Hernández to a left oblique strain, then later pulled Shohei Ohtani early after he was hit by a pitch in his right throwing hand.
Hernández suffered the much more obvious –– and, at least initially –– concerning injury.
Kiké Hernández left tonight’s game with a left oblique strain.
Having justreturned on Monday from offseason elbow surgerythat sidelined him for the first two months of the year, and having just hit his first home run of the season in the third inning in Tuesday night’s game, Hernández appeared to get hurt on a double he launched to deep center field in the fourth.
The veteran utilityman looked in discomfort as he pulled into second base on the play. He was removed from the game a half-inning later. As he sat on the bench, the SNLA broadcast showed him having an emotional conversation with manager Dave Roberts in the dugout.
#DodgersKiki Hernandez out of the game. No report yetpic.twitter.com/H8ZWO7nCpz
While the severity of his injury wasn’t immediately clear, oblique strains often require injured-list stints.
Ohtani, meanwhile, was hit in his hand by an 85.2 mph changeup the at-bat immediately after Hernández got hurt in the fourth.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
