{"id":66648,"date":"2025-08-14T03:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66648\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:22:08","slug":"dodgers-sit-max-muncy-brock-stewart-gets-best-case-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66648\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers sit Max Muncy; Brock Stewart gets ‘best-case’ news"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alden GonzalezAug 13, 2025, 10:43 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016.<\/p>\n

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Dodgers<\/a> shortstop Mookie Betts<\/a> was supposed to get a day off on Wednesday. Instead, it went to third baseman Max Muncy<\/a>, a late scratch from the lineup against the Angels<\/a> after experiencing soreness in his right side during pregame batting practice.<\/p>\n

Muncy’s injury prompted Betts to be placed back into the lineup for the finale of a three-game series from Angel Stadium, with rookie infielder Alex Freeland<\/a> shifting over to third base. The hope is that, with a traditional off day to follow, Muncy will heal up in time to rejoin the Dodgers’ lineup for the start of a highly anticipated weekend series against the division-rival San Diego Padres<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Unavailable for that series, of course, will be Brock Stewart<\/a>, the right-handed reliever who landed on the injured list with a bout of shoulder inflammation on Tuesday. Follow-up tests showed no structural damage, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, though he added: “It’s going to be a few weeks before he returns.”<\/p>\n

Roberts nonetheless characterized the results as a “best-case scenario” for a bullpen that is exceedingly thin at the moment, with Stewart joining fellow high-leverage relievers Kirby Yates<\/a>, Tanner Scott<\/a>, Michael Kopech<\/a> and Brusdar Graterol<\/a> on the injured list.<\/p>\n

Three of those pitchers, though, are closing in on a return. Yates threw to hitters on Wednesday, Kopech will begin a rehab assignment on Thursday and Scott is expected to take part in a simulated game at some point over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The hope is that Stewart, who will be shut down from throwing for a week, can return around the early part of September. But Roberts said there’s only a “small, small chance” Graterol can make it back from offseason shoulder surgery in time to impact the stretch run of this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alden GonzalezAug 13, 2025, 10:43 PM ET CloseESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-66648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}