When Tyler Glasnow left the mound final week at Globe Life Subject in Arlington, Texas, due to leg cramps, it was a dreary reminder of the harm struggles he has endured with the Dodgers.
Glasnow missed the postseason, and consequently the Dodgers’ World Sequence title run, after an elbow sprain final season. After 4 begins in 2025, was he in peril of seeing his season derailed once more?
On Sunday, Glasnow suffered a setback of a extra severe selection. Warming up earlier than the second inning in opposition to the Pittsburgh Pirates — after giving up back-to-back solo residence runs within the first — he doubled over to his aspect after releasing his final pitch. Supervisor Dave Roberts rushed out to the pitcher’s mound, adopted by a coach.
Glasnow’s day was accomplished. The crew introduced he left due to proper shoulder discomfort.
Beginning pitcher Tyler Glasnow walks to the dugout after leaving Sunday’s recreation with discomfort in his proper shoulder.
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Clearly pissed off as he spoke to the media in entrance of his locker, Glasnow stated he felt one thing in his shoulder seize throughout his warmup throws. He stated the trigger was probably the mechanical adjustments he’d been tweaking and tinkering with to extend arm well being.
“[I’m] just making a lot of changes, trying to figure out a way to stay healthy,” Glasnow stated. “I think some of the changes led to other things kind of taking over, and I’m just at this point, I’m just trying to figure out what to do. It’s just extremely frustrating.”
The Dodgers overcame the departure, amassing 9 runs and 14 hits to win 9-2 and declare the sequence over the Pirates. Typically used as a bulk reduction pitcher, Ben Casparius took over and excelled — tossing 3⅔ innings no-run ball, hanging out 5 to assist bridge the hole to the remainder of the bullpen that mixed for eight scoreless innings.
Pirates beginning pitcher Bailey Falter, who entered Sunday with a 5.19 earned-run common, faltered Sunday. The Dodgers (18-10) tagged Falter for six runs (4 earned) and compelled Pittsburgh (11-18) to maneuver to the bullpen within the fifth after Teoscar Hernández hit his two hundredth profession residence run — a solo shot for his eighth of the season — to offer the Dodgers a 6-2 lead within the fifth.
Andy Pages additionally continued to mash on the plate. The Cuban outfielder entered the sequence hitting .183 and left his 10-for-12 barrage in opposition to the Pirates with a .277 batting common. Pages collected no less than three hits in every recreation. He had 4 hits, together with a two-run residence run Sunday, tallying a career-high 4 RBIs.
Andy Pages celebrates after hitting a house run within the fifth inning Sunday.
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“That’s what’s most important, to help the team, always,” Pages stated when requested about producing effectively in latest video games. “I know at the start of the season, they were going to give me a lot of at-bats and things were going to turn out.”
Regardless of the victory, consideration will shift to how the Dodgers deal with their pitchers.
If Glasnow’s harm is deemed longer-term, he may be part of Blake Snell on the injured record — with each starters now battling shoulder accidents. Roberts stated he views Glasnow’s harm as a short-term difficulty — and that with Glasnow nonetheless determining how greatest to take care of his mechanics, an IL stint is feasible.
“With Tyler it’s hard because the not feeling good, the past injuries, how his body is not synced up, the mechanics of it — there’s a lot of different pieces that you’re trying to suss out to put him in the right mental place to perform,” Roberts stated. “We haven’t got there. We’re not there.”
Roberts stated the coaching employees and Glasnow will resolve whether or not the right-hander ought to bear imaging on his shoulder.
Glasnow signed a four-year, $115-million deal — together with a 2028 crew choice — with the Dodgers after the crew acquired him from Tampa Bay in December 2023.
After coping with cramping final season in opposition to Toronto in April, Glasnow experimented together with his hydration, very similar to his mechanics — being one of many pitchers publicly encouraging utilizing expertise to retool pitch shapes, growing spin and motion. Glasnow beforehand acknowledged that he chugs pickle juice to assist subside cramps. The lanky, 6-foot-8 starter took it one step additional Saturday and acquired an IV to assist pump fluids into him earlier than his begin in opposition to Pittsburgh.
Glasnow has spoken at size about his efforts to transform his mechanics to remain wholesome, working with biometric knowledge to regulate and keep away from harm stints. Roberts stated it’s a three-way effort with Glasnow.
Glasnow researches himself, the Dodgers teaching employees — pitching coach Mark Prior and assistant pitching coach Connor McGuiness — provides suggestions and he additionally will get enter from a third-party, Roberts stated.
Glasnow stated there’s a tremendous line between reverting again to previous mechanics and what he’s been working towards. For Glasnow, he stated he would do “whatever” to remain wholesome.
“I’m just obsessed with trying to figure out what’s going on,” stated Glasnow, who now holds a 4.50 earned-run common over 5 begins. “And it’s been like this for a few years, and I’m trying to find a way to stay healthy, and I’ll try to do whatever. I just don’t really have an answer right now, and I think that’s the most frustrating thing. It’s not like a lack of trying. It’s just kind of just getting exhausting at this point.”
Glasnow continued: “I feel bad for my teammates. I feel bad for people watching.”
As with final season, pitching well being has been a difficulty for the Dodgers. If Glasnow is shipped to the injured record, he’ll be the thirteenth Dodgers pitcher and sixth starter to overlook time this season.
Proper-hander Tony Gonsolin is about to return from the 60-day injured record and can make his first begin since 2023 in opposition to the Miami Marlins on Wednesday, Roberts stated. The Dodgers supervisor stated the crew will transfer ahead with a bullpen recreation Tuesday quite than name up a pitcher from triple-A for a spot begin.
Clayton Kershaw probably would be the subsequent beginning pitcher off the injured record as he makes his third rehabilitation begin for triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis on Tuesday. Kershaw is eligible to be activated off the 60-day injured record on Might 17.
