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As Mookie Betts reflected on his two-homer performance in the Dodgers’ 15-6 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night, he paused to glance to the opposite side of the room.
“It sucks, it sucks,” Betts said as he looked in the direction of Hernández’s locker.
Just two days into his return to the Dodgers, Kiké Hernández was heading back to the injured list with a strained left oblique. Hernández missed the first two months of the season rehabilitating his surgically-repaired left elbow.
Alex Freeland will be called up from triple-A Oklahoma City to replace Hernández on the active roster, manager Dave Roberts said.
The news could have been even worse for the Dodgers, as Shohei Ohtani remained on track to pitch on Wednesday after being hit by a pitch on his right hand.
The fourth-inning changeup by Kyle Freeland that struck Ohtani on his pitching hand, Roberts said, “got him on the pad” and “clipped his pinky a little bit.” With the Dodgers ahead by a 10-1 margin, Roberts said he pinch hit for Ohtani the next inning to better prepare him to pitch the next day.
Roberts said he was uncertain whether Ohtani would also be the Dodgers’ designated hitter.
“Want to make sure he feels really good on the pitching side of things,” Roberts said.
The injury to Hernández and the scare to Ohtani nearly overshadowed a breakout game for Betts, who started the day with a .165 average.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
